I may be a dissenting voice on this issue, please don't take offense. Sometimes a story /has/ been abandoned, and the author /doesn't/ mind someone picking up where it was left off. (I mean, people write fanfic sequels of books, do they not?) I understand that this is not the case for you, but I don't see how making the request is rude, unless the request itself was worded offensively. Now if they started posting a continuation without any attempt to contact you, on the other hand...
I realize there is a difference between someone writing a fanfic of a fanfic and the official adoption of an abandoned fic -- the second implies the author has acknowledge the new writer as continuing the "canon", as it is. You said that you don't mind someone using bits of your ideas; do you mind if people write fics of your fics, or unofficially set in the 'verses you create?
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I may be a dissenting voice on this issue, please don't take offense. Sometimes a story /has/ been abandoned, and the author /doesn't/ mind someone picking up where it was left off. (I mean, people write fanfic sequels of books, do they not?) I understand that this is not the case for you, but I don't see how making the request is rude, unless the request itself was worded offensively. Now if they started posting a continuation without any attempt to contact you, on the other hand...
I realize there is a difference between someone writing a fanfic of a fanfic and the official adoption of an abandoned fic -- the second implies the author has acknowledge the new writer as continuing the "canon", as it is. You said that you don't mind someone using bits of your ideas; do you mind if people write fics of your fics, or unofficially set in the 'verses you create?