Subject: [fanfic] Crossed Lives - Comments.
From: "'D'Artagnan' Frank Ho" <dkshadow@u.washington.edu>
Date: 12/5/1995, 1:54 AM
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CC: csuos@csv.warwick.ac.uk


I've read up to part 5, I thought I'd write a few quick thoughts.

It's a good fanfic, and there really isn't that much for me to comment on.

The storylines are flowing fine so far, but I can see where it's going 
to get confusing real quick.  If you could put in a title identifying the 
storyline of the section, it would be helpful to the reader.  I'm also 
sensing some confusion on your part in keeping track of the storylines as 
you jump and forth in writing them.  A trick to help clear this up , is 
to write *major* chucks on a single storyline at a time, and then writing 
*major* chunks for the other storyline.  Then you could break up the 
chunks into smaller parts combine parts from both storylines into the 
chapters like you've done for part 5.

While it's nice to see that Ranma is getting a soft ride in the storyline 
where he's married to Akane, I think he should/will/might get in trouble 
with her in regards to the anniversary.  Also, it's his first day in that 
storyline, it should be interesting when the day is over.  (Not 
necessarily lemon stuff.)  This also applies to the storyline where they 
aren't married.  I think, in the married storyline, Ranma kicks himself 
out of bed, while in the not-married storyline, Ranma gets kicked out of 
bed.  Maybe with the usual Ranma foot in mouth style of antics, or 
something like samauri honor for the other.

My $0.0002,

Frank



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