Subject: Re: favorites
From: "Richard D. Lawson" <sterman@sprynet.com>
Date: 6/11/1996, 11:14 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

Personally, my favorites are:

Romances
Comedies
"Serious" stories (see my current series, Thy Inward Love, as an 
example)
Dark stories (Don't know why, maybe I'm a bad person)

Also, I much prefer stories with paragraphs to those that look like 
radio scripts (an exception is DnR, which is well told even in that 
style.)

My dislikes are:

Crossovers
Lemons  (with very few exceptions)
Stories that have the author in them (Usually solving everyone's 
problems.  See "The fanfic for YOU!" by Sebastian Weinberg, a wonderful 
parody of this kind of story.)
Serials that never get finished

These are, of course, my *personal* tastes; I'm not trying to suggest 
what people should or should not write.  And, as you can see by my 
comments on DnR, I'll read a well-written story, even if it falls into 
my "dislikes" category.

Oh, someone write a good DBZ story.. not some 
stupid ones I've been reading.

Here's another one of my personal views:  no such thing as a good DBZ 
sotry.  :)
I have never much saw the appeal of DB in its various incarnations.  
Mostly endless fighting with little justification.  Where's the story in 
that?

#include <standard disclaimer about the above being MHO>