Subject: Re: Authors in their own stories
From: Caroline Ann Seawright
Date: 6/24/1996, 6:05 AM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

Stray characters not in the origional cast are subject to the same
complaints; the character is really the author.  I don't totally subscribe

Hmmm... Does that mean that Miyabi is me at ... toddler age? Wow...
Cool, I always wantd to be Ranma and Akane's kid! Hmm... maybe I'll have
Miyabi go marry Ryouga or something just to make my dreams come true,
and write an even hotter and steamier lemon scene between the 3 year old
and Ryouga-kamisama!!

to this myself as I have used numerous additional characters in my stories,
I can't be all of them.  Okay, most of my work is from 20 years ago

Damn... does that mean that I'm *not* Miyabi, and I shouldn't write that
sexy pedophilia scene after a Ryouga/Ukyou divorce? Awwwwww... And I was
looking forward to that! *pout*

stands.  Anyway, new characters MUST be intergral to moving the central
characters along a given plot path and MUST be included only because none of
the origional characters qualify for that manipulation.  I know this is hard
for 'purists' (who insist that any inclusion damages the integrity of the
origional author's work) to understand.  If you want to see the above rules
bent, broken and totally screwed up, read some of the crap that passes as
Trekkie FanFic.  Really sad.

Hmmm... I tend not to like many stories with new characters appearing...
though I still write one myself, sort of... but I wonder if it counts
because she's not doing much or anything really... But I guess growing
up through a series of fics could be considered 'integral'?

As for an author bed hopping with one of the characters, well, I'm not into
lemon fanfic anyway.  As Ranma said in Episode 4 of the TV series: "Leave me
out of your sick fantasies, pal!"

Good idea... No matter how much I may want Ryouga, I don't see myself
writing a fic like that... spam, yes, fic no!

Kun-chan...