Ryoga Hibiki wrote:

On Sun, 14 Apr 1996, Ben Kosse wrote:

     I hope that you read this and can see where I'm coming from. I agree
that you must write in whatever way you can do best (I just sit down and
write, others plan their story before touching it). But, fanfics require
that the author pay attention to someone else's characters and universe. Not
following those will usually detract from the entertainment value of a story.

        But isn't it just as wrong to follow an EXACT set of someone
else's guidelines?  Is it forbidden to tamper with characters just
because someone else created them?  If so, then half the stuff written is
a hideous perversion of the truth and everyone who wrote them should be
executed.

	Actually this is completely dependant upon the author.  If the author is 
talented enough to convince the readers that certain acts by characters is 
perfectly natural, even though the characters in their dependant manga or anime 
would never do such things, than it is perfectly fine.  It is always dependent on 
the story itself.

	Of course some stuff written by certain authors are more accepted than 
other's.  On certain lemons I have written I've gotten huge amounts of praise and 
the usual flames.  Some people were impressed by my writing because I managed to 
convince them that the certain characters I was writing about would fuck the day 
lights out of each other even though they wouldn't in the anime.

RR.