Subject: Re: [FFML] Comments on the 1997 Non-Ranma FanFic Poll Results
From: "Scott Schimmel" <schimmel@seas.upenn.edu>
Date: 3/24/1998, 7:41 PM
To: beaubird@uvic.ca (Richard Beaubien)
CC: ffml@fanfic.com

Richard Beaubien wrote:
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Scott Schimmel wrote:

Before I offer some Misc. comments here on the results I'd like to say
thanks to Scott, Sarah and eveyone that voted for putting togther this
poll. Let's hope we can keep this going (without causing too much trouble
to Scott or Sarah...:) 

Mostly Sarah.  She must have a lot more patience than I. ^_^

But on to the point... I don't plan on doing this again next year.  By
next January, I'll be too busy in real life to handle it; even this
year, I'm consistently more delayed than I expected.

I encourage anyone else who's interested to take it up, though.  I
think the responses were numerous enough to sustain it... if just
barely... and it's likely to grow in the future, as these things do.

<snip>
 9	23	Hime-chan's Ribbon

BIG suprsie here, since I'd thought this series would be alot lower
on the peg and few other series to be higher up on the peg than this
one. 
[...]
 2 Sakura Blossoms in the Moonlight (Hime-chan's Ribbon) by Richard
	Beaubien

Okay, second biggest suprise....:P;;;
I mean this has actually placed better than alot of fic's involving the
big names (SM, TM, KOR, etc...). It joins Orange Marmalade and SKJAM's
Minky Momo Fic as being the most non-main stream of the fic's out there.
And quite frankly I'm suprised as hell it even got one vote, let alone
2....

The most important thing (IMO) all this shows is that, no matter how
obscure you think a series is, you'll have an audience.  (And a fairly
dedicated one, from the looks of it.  I wouldn't have guessed I had 14
readers -total-, let alone 14 of the 42 who voted.)

Hopefully this wwill encourage more fanfics about different series.

ObUpdate:  The web page with the results is up, but still under
construction; part of it is difficult to decipher at the moment.  I
need to finish converting my text to tables.  In theory, it might be
ready tonight, depending on how much of my other work I manage to
complete... soon, anyway.


Scott Schimmel                http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~schimmel/
Ex ignorantia ad sapientium;  "You really aren't normal, are you?"
ex luce ad tenebras.              -- Miki Koishikawa