Subject: Re: [FanFic] [fanfic] Eight Days A Week
From: RpM-acct2/5
Date: 12/5/1995, 3:28 PM
To: fanfic@andrew.cais.com

Read all three parts that are sitting here in my HD.  What can I say, 
simply awesome, I couldn't put it down.  I read all three parts, even 
thought I have to study for a final.

well, me and Nigel are sitting here, looking over the comments...
me = RPM
Nigel = NDM


Only a few short comments off of the top of my head:

RPM: okay...

I'd try to keep the cameos down a bit, and try to keep them related to the
story.  The Flash and Godai cameos were great, but some of the others 
like the "Friends" one was kinda out of it.

NDM:  if you think there's lots of cameos now... >=)
RPM:  I swear, it's not my fault.  BUT seriously, there _is_ a point
      to all this came-mania, you just won't see it for a while...

Angst!!!  Part 3 definitely needed more angst.  The token angst scenes 
were really good, but I think needed to carry on longer.

RPM:  There's not enough flat-out comedic fanfics out there.  That's what
      Nigel here is tryin to do...  although there _had_ to be angst
      somewhere...
NDM:  I'm not good at angst.
RPM:  I am, but I feel stupid writing it anyways....

Resolution, you gotta have resolution.  I'd be real disappointed if you 
just let everything hang at the end.  If nothing else, I think 
Isamu-Nabiki and Ranma-Akane should end up together.  Isamu and Nabiki 
are off to a good start, but I'd love to see more Akane and Ranma 
interaction.  Resolving the other characters is not a big deal, as you 
haven't used them much and there hasn't been much development of their 
characterizations in your fanfic.

RPM:  well, the Isamu-Nabiki thing... I don't see why it shouldn't
   be resolved....
NDM:  hrm....
RPM:  but, personally, as the editor, I think that resolving the
      Ranma/Akane thing would not be a good thing.  Why?  Those two
      have gotten along well in the past, and yet they always end
      up angry again.  There's nothing _that_ new happening in EDAW
      with their relationship.  Just a moment or two, as (I hope)
      R. Takahashi might have done it.  Nigel?
NDM:  I'll resolve some things, but not the way people expect...

While I understand you not wanting to do anything that Takahashi wouldn't 
do, I think you should at least resolve the elements that you've stuck 
into the storyline with your fanfic.  IE, Isaum/Nabiki and Ranma/Akane 
actually being getting along.

RPM:  we'll see where this goes... there _is_ a plot layed out.
      (although he's dived wildly away from it now and then.  The
      Okonomiyaki thing has flown out wildly beyond where I saw it
      going, and that wasn't even his creation to begin with... %)

My $0.0000001,

RPM:  Oh, the inflation!!!

Frank

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