http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/v...tion-On-SequelsYahtzee does raise a lot of important points, and even though he *was* talking about videogames I think a lot of these ideas carry over to writing very just as well. When you write a story, don't plan on making sequels that just retread old ground, like having a romantic couple break up and then fall back in love again in the sequel. Take their relationship in a different direction (like how in Spiderman, Peter Parker decides he can't be with Mary Jane because he doesn't want to endanger her, but in the second he understands he has to be honest with himself that he does love her).
This also applies to fan-sequels. If you watch a show and want to do a fanfanfiction story set as like another season for it, don't just retread old ground. I can't even begin to count all the WITCH stories that start with the usual "bunch of girls get the heart and fight a bad guy" or for Winx "bunch of girls decide to form a club". Jeez. Do something different. It's not that hard to do when you bother putting effort into it.
There's a lot of good stories here and usually the good ones pull me in because they *do* do different things. Jahnavi's prequel about Faragonda and Griffon's time as students was always a blast and I liked P-Girl's different stories too because I never knew exactly what I'd get but she'd put a lot of effort into them.
So... yeah.
*hops off soapbox and quietly destroys it*
Anyways, just wanted to pass that on.