Excerpts from mail.fanfic: 19-Apr-96 Re: [FanFic] The Nature of .. by
XTSEBASTIAN@ccvax.fuller 

TO: Damon

You said that a story with little to no characterization fall
flat (if I'm reading the messages correctly) and then you turn
around and give us at least three examples of stories
(written by yourself) that have little to no characterization.
Which stories?  Scyth, Cybernica and Memories.  Off the top of 
my head, the characters seemed like they were just photographs
instead of portraits (to use a metaphor).  You just skimmed the 
top of the character and left the rest to the wind.  What's up
with that?

First of all...Cyberica was the first story I wrote, so you'll have to
leave me a little slack there.  Scyth was the second, and I've been
waiting for you to finish C&Cing it.  You never did.  I haven't had time
to do much with it lately anyway, though.  Memories, you C&Ced, but I
haven't had time to get back to yet.

Now to answer your question:  I said the stories fall a little flat for
me.  That's true.  I never said I could *write better*, did I?

Damon Casale, scyth@andrew.cmu.edu

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