Subject: [FFML] Happy fanfics - EVIL!
From: gaffney@iconn.net
Date: 5/19/1996, 10:09 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

OK, before I begin my latest rant, what's with the tags?
Every time I don't add a tag, there isn't one, and when
I do, I get another, for a total of two.  Que?

Anyway, I'm attempting to write episode 1 of Bosom Buddies.
The reason I say attempting is that it's going very
badly.  I have come to the conclusion that fun, happy
fanfics are insanely difficult to write.

Episode 2, which is even more frothy, is being even more
of a bear.  But Episode 3, with a touching emotional scene
between Ranma and Ukyou, rolled off the keyboard.

Death?  Emotional torture?  Bring it on!  I have no problem
dashing off Sour Times easily, yet writing a frothy, fun
piece is driving me nuts!  I can't understand why so many
pieces are labeled 'T' on White Wolf's guide.  (Speaking 
of which, isn't the next one due out in June?)

The other thing bugging me is that I can't write script.
I have only written plays in the past, but for some reason
Ranma requires prose for me.  Meh.

This rant brought to you by the Utility Muffin Research
Kitchen.  The videos'll be out again in September, Gail
promises.  (How 'bout Pansuto Taro as the Illinois Enema
Bandit?)

--Sean Gaffney
--And what's a 19-year-old doing running an ad agency?