Excerpts from mail.fanfic: 25-Apr-96 Re: Fanfic Reviews Part 3 (.. by
"Peter L. Ward"@best.com 

Here is more ego stroaking material.

Although I enjoyed Mr. Ward's Aa! Megami-Sensi! story line
very much, I have to agree with the comments below.  While
the story was very well done, I think it would have been a
better series if fewer new characters had been introduced.

Or at least having them introduced in a gradual manner.  Gee,
twenty-twenty hindsight does people a lot of good now, does it?

In explaination, I must say that when I started this fanfic series, I
honestly didn't know how long it would end up lasting, so I took the
characters, which were already developed in another form (same storyline,
just quite a bit farther ahead in it) and just dumped them in mostly at
once.  A big mistake, now that I look back on it.
 
Now that they're out there, all I can do is really switch between two or
three groups of them as the story progresses and have the rest pop in
every now and then.

Guys?  THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU!!  I now have a very good idea of what
*I've* been doing wrong, and a fairly good idea of how to fix it.  ^_^

Of course, it does a *heck* of a lot of good to tell you 
that now that the series is completed.

Who told you this?  Like hell it's completed! ^_^  Just because I take
some time off from my writing to deal with a death in the family doesn't
mean I stopped entirely...

Same here.  I haven't gotten the chance to write any new Blue Lightning
in *months*, but it's still a work-in-progress.  ^_^

Thanks to the feedback I did get, I decided a few months back to have it
go to a good 26 eps at least (not counting side stories).  With nine down
and number ten in the works, that leaves sixteen plus a few side stories
to go.  I'd say that it's far from finishing this run, not to mention any
potential sequels (like when Ranma's class moves up to senior status and
ends up with Urd as their chemistry teacher for that year...)

I completely forgot about the one side story I was working on for Blue
Lightning.  Thanks for reminding me.  ^_-

Damon Casale, scyth@andrew.cmu.edu

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