Did Magi ever finish .. Pete - A young mans story
Thank you for the reply.. sad really, you get invested in a fantastic story, even feel part of it, only to be left with no answers.
What's more, he never reached a natural concluding point. If I remember correctly, he'd completed a season, and then … nothing. No indication of whether he'd ever succeed, whether the coaches would ultimately accept him. He was doing fine at the close of the one book, yet … no mention of whether he'd ever achieve anything else, win the girls of his dreams, or be killed mid-season in a tragic accident.
Thus, the non-ending erases ALL the good in the entire series.
I can understand the various reasons for quitting (writing, posting, or even changing professions or, hell, dying or simply getting too ill to continue), yet to simply disappear without a trace? Who does that?
Normally when an SOL author does that, it's because they meet a new, overly religious paramour and demands "No more writing porn, no matter what!"
Personally, in a case like that, I'd see it as a red flag and run for the hills, yet it happens often enough. So … paralyzed, abducted by aliens, or just gave up and walked away from everything for no apparent reason?
I don't need nor expect a complete explanation, but some notification or slight justification is helpful. Now, I feel like a Prom Date that's been dumped at the door as my date walks off with someone else, giving them MY Prom ticket!
What's more, as usual, I'd often speak with him while he wrote and posted the story, usually in private messages, so I'd never reveal anything I shouldn't. Yet … it's like any connection he ever had was cut at that moment. That's … cold!
(You can tell I take my reading seriously! Stories go sideways all the time, but ...)
Right back when he started posting that saga, he said that he'd post for as long as he found it interesting - or something like that - and he was always going to lose interest at some point.
I initially found that story on AssTr, probably via AssM. That infrastructure is long gone.