Well, I’ve certainly gotten mixed reviews with regards to the ending. Maybe people will feel better once the epilogue is posted. I think I will also go back and do some rewrites of this story to help the ending fit a little better.

With a sequel in mind, I probably would write a more cathartic, happy ending if and when I go through with it. It would also probably focus on Tim having to deal with the giant world outside his house.

Overall, I just need to take it all in stride and work on improving my plot development. I just don’t want to be pegged as a writer who always writes happy endings. 

Yes, some of the extra characters probably could’ve used some more “screen time”, but they were later editions after the story had started. If a sequel is in the foreseeable future, you’ll most definitely see more of them.

I’m not sure if you are asking what my next stories are about, or the epilogue…so, I’ll address both:

I don’t want to spoil anything about the epilogue, but I will say it will set up the direction of a potential sequel should I ever decide to write one…

As for my next stories, my next novel is “Little, Big Brother” which is in the process of being outlined and written (Check out the preview in my “story” — Current and Upcoming projects). Before that, however, I have a few smaller projects I need/would like to finish — including the epilogue to this, and the giantess alternate ending to “Babysitter Trouble”

Two short stories I’m in the process of working on only have working titles, but their plots are going to revolve around a couple of scenarios I’d like to include in my novel:

The first is about a teenager who shrinks while his sister is having a pool party, and the other is about a young man who gets a front-row seat to his wife giving herself a foot massage.

Thanks for your interest, and let me know what you think of the upcoming works.

     For starters, I would direct you to red356’s recently reposted review as to exactly what happened, as he’s a much more reliable source than I. I had actually already copied his reviews so I could write a more detailed response before he deleted them, but he kinda beat me to the punch.

     Secondly, I’m not the type of author who purposefully deletes reviews just because someone has something negative to say, all I ask is that they’re polite about it. The only times I delete review is because 1) It was duplicated (which occasionally happens), so I delete the duplicate; 2) There was blatant harassment (which I have never experienced on this site); 3) The chapter to which the review was tied was deleted (which I have only done a couple of times because certain chapters had formatting issues that I couldn’t fix by just copying and pasting over); or 4) The reviewer deletes their own review (which is what happened in this case)

     I always appreciate honest feedback — positive and negative — and I agree that all of your complaints are well warranted with regards to plot and character development, but if you recall, I stated from the get go and in the series’ descriptor that this story was going to be focusing primarily on the scenarios rather than plot and character development. Still, I would like those things to stand on their own.

     Believe it or not, this is the ending I had in mind the entire from the beginning, and I wasn’t even considering the possibility of a sequel. I think that by the end, story ended up taking a few turns even with an outline in place that I didn’t set it up well. While this wasn’t my first foray into the “domineering giantess” genre, it IS the first time I had a character go through a shift from sweet and caring to somewhat dominant. I gotta say that this chapter took a lot of writing, editing, and rewriting — I find dialogue driven chapters usually are — but honestly, I also felt during that time that this ending was going to be hard to justify. In the end, I had Natalie snapping from all the stress and Tim whining, but I know now that I definitely needed a better setup for even this character shift to be believable. Perhaps I should’ve made Tim misbehave and act out more, or hinted more at Natalie getting stressed and anxious from all the pressure…unlike with the issues you raised with my story “With Great Power…” forcing me to rethink the ending, I actually want to keep this ending in place and maybe make adjustments to the story later down the road to help it make sense. I think I will also move forward with an epilogue to help set up a potential sequel, but I want to work on other projects for a bit before I really work on that.

Ultimately, let me just say that I do appreciate your candor and letting me know of your complaints. I’ll try to make adjustments moving forward.

Well, I’m certainly glad you liked the story. I will say is that this chapter was how I always envisioned this story ending…although, I hadn’t initially intended on writing a sequel, with the story being set at the beginning of the summer and the introduction of the neighbor characters, it certainly leads to sequel possibilities. I still may add an epilogue that will leave the story even more open to sequel possibilities and the direction I’d envision it taking, but that would be all for quite some time with all the other projects I want to get to. I imagine the next novel I plan to write is going to take at least a year to even get close to completion, along with the short, side stories I’d like to write and post.

With enough interest, I will write a sequel, but I will make sure it’s of a much higher quality.