In a quandry...

I have three stories currently in progress. You might say that I can't commit to any one of them long enough to get it finished, but sometimes I have to do something else for awhile until the muse returns and directs me back to finish the tale. But that's not the quandry. This is. I have a story currently published that contains two parts. There is room for a third part, a part which I have ideas for but have not started. As of late, I have received several requests for part 3, including some ongoing dialogue with a reader about the appropriate plot line. So of course now I'm noodling over what might happen in part 3, and if the characters have any ideas of their own. But then, if I start part 3, then I will have 4 - count 'em, FOUR - stories in the works. Is that really fair to the other 3 who would be left hanging?

On the other hand, I really enjoy the characters in this particular story, and I think part 3 could be a somewhat easy write. As I said, I have some ideas for the next encounter, along with some interesting suggestions from a particularly interested reader.

And thus, the quandry.

What would you do, dear friends, if we were to switch places and you could be Bedtime Storyteller for a day??