Do you want to give an update?

You can't just leave me here to hang.

I need another chapter, please,

To put my mind at ease,

Or end it with a bang.

It's so much fun to read your writing! It pulls me in,

To leave it would be a waste.

Do you want to give an update?

Come on, you know you want to update.

Make haste!

Do you want to give an update?

That cliffy wasn't very nice!

I know that tactic gets you more reviews,

But walk in readers' shoes.

Take my advice.

A cliffy needs an answer,

Resolution too.

Otherwise it's no good!

Please, I know you're out there.

So what if it's been months or years.

This story was so promising

But now it's languishing.

It's dead, I fear.

But you could resurrect it,

And make it whole.

It just needs some writing love.

Do you want to give an update?

Well, authors got a chapter, so here's a reader's lament for you. How many of us feel this way about the stories we love?