Finishing Stuff Off

Of course you could always start a series that has no finite end.

That certainly clears things up. You'd wanna be finishing that for sure.

But not if it has dried bananas in Bleuuuuurgh

I wouldn't even want to START eating THAT. If I'm gonna eat a banana, I'm gonna eat a fresh banana - and then go spank someone [see flopsy's latest story].

I'm with you there, ( I have serial breakfasts) but I currently have a longish story which has run out of arc, and a potentially short one which I can't get the voice right on. Loads of unstarted ideas.

I almost feel as if I shouldn't write at home now, as Dear Vanilla disapproves.

Lately I've had trouble finishing short stories, to say nothing of serials.

I'm working on a long work right now, but I'm not going to release it until it's done. So you may not see much from me for a while. And that is the key, I think. You have to get to the end BEFORE you publish part 1, or there is that risk of never finishing. Fans of GRRM know what I mean.
OTOH, a series that is like a bunch of unconnected stories albeit with common characters can be added to any time. "Gwen's Sorority Days" is like this---it's like episodes of "Cheers" or "Friends". Maybe I should have called it "Friends with Paddles".

I concur with Rollin's take on things. When I write a serial, although I like to think of them as a long story broken up into chapters, I always write the whole series before posting them. This enables me to proof and re-write certain sections if necessary to ensure the story hangs together coherently.

On the other hand, I believe I have written only one true serial. It started out as only 10 chapters, but the way it was written, inadvertently I admit, has allowed me to develop the series whereby I can retain the central characters and introduce new ones along the way to keep it fresh, and at the same time explore different scenarios that fit into the basic premise of the series.

I must confess that I have absolutely no idea where the series is going, but thinking up new amusing and diverting plots is all part of the fun of writing. I had been wondering what a spanking would be like in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station, but I dismissed this as an absurd idea!

Zero gravity spankings... that might be absurd, edb, but it's also intriguing and imaginative. If you wrote it, I would probably read it.

which presumably would go round in ever-decreasing circles until it disappeared up its own end.