Can I suggest a slightly different view? The best analogy isn't really producer/consumer: it's pusher/addict. The people who desperately want you to finish a particular story want it because they're hooked on it, because it *matters* to them. It's not just an interchangeable commodity. Are you seeing readers' attitudes as entitlement, when it's really more something visceral along the lines of 'want, want, WANT shiny'? There are authors I love who have stopped writing. There are authors who I love who have died. But that doesn't stop me wanting them to have written more, if it was the good stuff, the hard stuff. There is a reason we're called fanatics, after all.
I've never posted a WIP, because my writing doesn't work like that: I have to have the whole thing written, at least in draft, to tie it together. But I've written stuff that people want sequels to. And sometimes I've felt able to do them and sometimes I haven't: it depends if I can see another story. But the reason people are wanting more is because they think it's good. It's as basic as that.
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Date: 2011-09-05 01:24 pm (UTC)I've never posted a WIP, because my writing doesn't work like that: I have to have the whole thing written, at least in draft, to tie it together. But I've written stuff that people want sequels to. And sometimes I've felt able to do them and sometimes I haven't: it depends if I can see another story. But the reason people are wanting more is because they think it's good. It's as basic as that.