On Fri, 27 Oct 1995 22:29:07 -0700 (PDT),
 Ed Sharpe <esharpe@hsc.usc.edu> wrote ...

 >Dear Friends:

 >        I have a question.  Why?

 >        What I mean is why do you write fan-fictions?  i can't be
 >for the money now, can it?

Let's see, scratches head, oooo dem splinters !

I started out reading "Hopelessly Lost" not long after getting my
internet connection purely out of curiosity, never having encountered
a fanfiction work before. It was fortunate that it was BGC related as
I just love that atmosphere (it's that obvious huh ?), after that well ...
I think I've read all the Undocumented Features, BGC, a large chunk of
Ranma and numerous others to boot.

Having read xxx (I've lost count) fanfics, I got inspired enough by all
the fine works out there to break a 20 year old vow of "I'll never write
anything". It takes something special to do that and I've honoured those
who were able to do this to me, take a big bow people.

Once inspired, I wanted to put something back into the net community
rather than sit here and leech all the while.

And now a message for all the lurkers out there :
  Don't forget to send your comments in.
  When you buy a book; you're giving the author feedback.
  I get the impression that some good fanfics have died a death
  because the author didn't get any feedback; a great shame.

I try to comment on all the fanfic I read, but I can't read it all;
there's currently a twenty story backlog in my in-tray !!

Sorry if this got a bit deep for a simple question.

Now back to the irregular noise ...

Money (n) : A rare animal, very shy, dislikes light, 
            favours group meetings inside large metal boxes
            or dark recesses. Worshiped as a god by some tribes.

Anybody some more puns ?  (thought not)

-- Mackie Stingray (Robin Smith)      Author of "BGC: The Tempest Chronicles"
^[$B%m%S%s^[(J ^[$B%9%_%9^[(J        Lichfield, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Miyazaki, Sonoda, Shirow, Suzuki, Takahashi, Matsumoto            All Hail UF