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== Fan Works ==
* Inevitably the [[Better Than Canon|good]] writers you actually ''like'' will become so prolific and excited about their amazing ideas that they start four or five different projects and never finish more than one. Which really blows when a [[Dead Fic]] winds up happening after a bloody horrible cliffhanger.
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** [[Shadow Crystal Mage]] also falls into this, having fifty-six stories, only sixteen of which are labeled as finished, and of the remaining forty, thirty have been updated over the past year.
** [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1545579/NeonZangetsu NeonZangetsu] is quite possibly the king of this trope, having currently{{when}} 197 stories, few, if any of which are finished, or have more than a couple of chapters.
** [http://www.fanfiction.net/~ayamacchiato Aya Macchiato] tends to suffer from this. Primarily writing for the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' fandom, she is known for creating [[So Cool Its Awesome|some of the best]] [[The Dark Side|dark!Harry]] fanfics on the web... but she sometimes gets distracted by the next [[Plot Bunny]] that comes by, so partially because of this trope, pretty much anything and/or everything she writes tends to inevitably be dropped and get turned into a [[Dead Fic]].
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** [https://www.fanfiction.net/u/8886156/mp3-1415player mp3.1415player], probably best known as the author of ''[[Taylor Varga]]'', has as of early 2024 at least half a dozen very good, very ''large'' fics -- mostly ''[[Worm]]'' crossovers -- in some state of incompletion. None are [[Dead Fic]]s, but he takes so long to get back to some that you start to wonder.
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* [http://www.starshipmoonhawk.com/ Michael Prokop's] main project is his magnum opus, ''Starship Moonhawk'', which at one point had two spin-offs (''Cosmic Feline'' and ''Space Destroyer Hunter'') and a planned roleplay forum, all of which save said main comic got canned or put on the backburner. That freed him up to work on his adult comics, ''Peppermint Saga'' (and its non-canon spin-off, ''Blue-Grey Rhapsody'') and ''Ship in a Bottle''. He also does website work for ''Salient Caligation'', has one called ''The Lavenders'' in the works and does commissioned pieces. Combined with retcons, a slight attitude and just plain old bad luck, it can feel very rare to see anything of his updated consistently for more than a month.
* Furry/Manga artist Gillpanda suffers from this trope, he has more than 15 mangas/doujinshis (plus other projects) and none of them was finished (commissions doesn't count). His more recently project "Affinity" probably will get canceled or put in [[Development Hell]] after the Vol. 2, but, after all... [[There Is Always Hope]].
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* [[Brian Clevinger]]: He's been working on ''[[8-Bit Theater]]'' regular for the greater part of a decade, and since then he's written a novel (''[[Nuklear Age]]''), tried to write a sequel to it, is currently{{when}} writing and doing various other jobs on a published comic (''[[Atomic Robo]]''), and has recently started writing for [[Warbot in Accounting|two]] [[How I Killed Your Master|other]] webcomics simultaneously, and of all of these only ''[[Warbot in Accounting]]'' has run into any severe [[Schedule Slip]] (which is more because of the artist than him). ''8-Bit'' has had some schedule slip, but that is almost always caused by things such as hurricanes, and he apparently learnt from the experience, as 8-Bit is the only comic which is not written ahead of time.
** Now he's finished 8-Bit. But the number of projects is still huge (the <s>two</s> three webcomics and ''Atomic Robo'', <s>a comic</s> comics for Marvel...).
* [[Magiversity|Benny Reyes]] has this problem, his comics include ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130402174114/http://www.drunkduck.com/Magiversity/ Magiversity]'', ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100822094236/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Lost_Battle_Fortress/index.php Zephyr The Lost Battle Fortress]'', ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100822095557/http://www.drunkduck.com/Hypershooter/index.php Hypershooter]'', ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130107020657/http://www.drunkduck.com/Astronomalies/ Astronomolies]'', & the adult comics ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20070503165235/http://www.drunkduck.com/Pr0nCrest/index.php Pr0nCrest]'', ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20071021052006/http://www.drunkduck.com/B4_Pr0nCrest/index.php B4 Pr0nCrest]'', ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/Sexy_Bouncin_Oppai_Troopers/index.php Sexy Bouncin' Oppai Troopers]''{{Dead link}}
* J. X. Gans has ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100822095546/http://www.drunkduck.com/GansWorks/index.php GansWorks]'' (which shows off a number of aborted comics), ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100822095627/http://www.drunkduck.com/PostHuman/index.php PostHuman]'', ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100822085857/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Bees_Knees/index.php The Bees Knees]'', ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100925072253/http://www.drunkduck.com/PowerTrip/index.php Power Trip]'', ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100822093709/http://www.drunkduck.com/Misfits_of_Mischief/index.php Misfits Of Mischief]'' the adult comic ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/Stella_and_Celeste/index.php Stella & Celeste]''{{Dead link}}
* Keith Alan Morgan created ''[[The KAMics]]'' to get around his problem of writing & drawing the same characters over & over & over again & allowing him to bounce from series to series while still (mostly) keeping to his update schedule.
* [http://www.instantclassic.net/ Brian Carroll] of ''[[Instant Classic]]'' fame usually has eight or so projects going at once (which he regularly makes fun of using the marquee on his site). Past projects have included a comic called Trumpet Airlines that only featured three or so strips, GRAMPAA (a site against the MPAA), Studio Litchfield (a spinoff of ''[[Instant Classic]]''), The Millatreuese Project (a series of short quick one-person films), and several independent film ventures. Currently{{when}} he's producing ''[[Instant Classic]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20080908114453/http://www.genrezvous.com/ Genrezvous Point], the Instant Classic Editorial, The Rapscallions (a reboot of his earlier comic [https://web.archive.org/web/20100709213456/http://www.instantclassic.net/pirates/ Pirates]), a journal comic called [https://web.archive.org/web/20100821081959/http://www.lobsterback.com/fstopblues/ F-Stop Blues], and a feature film. At least Carroll acknowledges it.
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** And he just started a [http://www.lancescomicworld.com/profiles/blogs/jump-on-witchblade-origins review column]{{Dead link}} that's going to update twice weekly. ''And'' he's still updating everything with regularity.
* Bobby Crosby has a good half-dozen webcomics unfinished, each of which see maybe three updates in a year. These updates seem to coincide him trying to push the story to a movie or media publisher; one gets the impression they're little more than vehicles for a screenwriting career he can't seem to get off the ground. One especially cynical may wonder if his inability to keep any of his web-works on a consistent schedule might be negatively affecting these attempts.
* Nepath, creator of webcomics [https://web.archive.org/web/20130719030615/http://www.drunkduck.com/Energize/ Energize] – he's currently{{when}} working on Energize, it's spin-off [https://web.archive.org/web/20120413203514/http://www.drunkduck.com/saroth/ Saroth] and another comics, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130719032342/http://www.drunkduck.com/
* While not to extreme, humon [https://web.archive.org/web/20180611195317/https://humon.deviantart.com/] can suffer from this from time to time. Scandinavia and the World is easily her most popular project, and she will sometimes focus on those for long periods of time, often to the chagrin to fans of her second-most-popular work Niels. ''Love and Tentacles'' fans are also very disappointed as she apparently has no ideas for it, and it has been long dormant. Occasionally [[Sat W]] fans will become annoyed when she focuses on Niels or a non-comic project (like her recent fantasy species).
* ''[[City of Reality]]'' author Ian Sampson confessed to it [http://cityofreality.com/2010/11/01/08-07-thefutureagain/ here]{{Dead link}}, after a long bout with [[Schedule Slip]].
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* [[Little Kuriboh]], creator of [[The Abridged Series]] genre, also has a webcomic that updates sporadically and two other ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' spinoffs, regularly flies off to conventions all over the US and his native UK, and is a stage actor.
** He now also has a videoblog. So far, he's recorded a dramatic reading of a Sonic fanfic with fellow Abridgers, and several prank calls in his characters.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140414223314/http://andrewdickman.deviantart.com/art/If-I-could-tell-a-story-10165465 Andrew Dickman.]
* [[Running Gag|As noted]], [[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog|Joss Whedon]].
* Arguably, Chris Bores, aka [[The Irate Gamer]]. His review series has recently gotten stagnant (a new review was once released, ''three months'' after the last one). He also focuses on two other projects: ''Haunted Investigators'' and ''Chris and Scottie Roadtrip''.
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