Having finished the exhausting task of rewriting TIL, I now want to move
on to my next story.  I'm putting a lot of work into something I'm not
getting compensated for.  :)

I'd like your opinion.  

Neyahaha!  The perfect place to inset my opinion of TIL&Right Side!  
Yeah, so I'm behind on my reading....its worse than you think, it took a 
while to find these in my back log of fics (as of saturday, down to 96 
from 130.  Damn it, who sent in all those new fics yesterday!!!!).  I 
decided to give TIL a try because Mike Loader said it resembled 
Aftermath, and that it was a Nabiki\Kuno story.  Psyke.  I read it I 
realy liked it.  I don't have part 4&5 (ARRRRGGGG!!!!).  Then I read 
Right Side Of The Ledger...I loved that one!!!  That was alot like 
Aftermath...if aftermath had been written by someone with a flare for the 
dramatic and had sat down and written it all at once...blablabla...anyway 
you rule, I love your stuff, please send me TIL 4&5:
     trotter@bobcat.etsu.edu

I have three story ideas mulling around in my head...

1)  TIL side story:  Kuno and Nabiki's prom night.  I mentioned that
when I wrote part 8 of TIL, I was very tempted to write a lemon-flavored
story about these two.  I still am.  I don't like lemons for two
reasons:  I don't like to think about the characters in *that* way, and
the sex tends to be terribly unrealistic.  Kun-chan and I exchanged some
emails on this subject.  Her point was that realistic sex wasn't
terribly interesting to read about.  She wrote an amusing vignette about
"real sex" that I wish I'd kept.  

Anyway, the point of this would be to try to right a romantic,
realistic, lemon-flavored story about Kuno and Nabiki.

I love Kuno/Nabiki stories...but I hate lemons[1].  Most of the lemons I 
have read have one common problem, phrases like:
   her bud of love
   his throbbing member
   her flower of womanhood
   her buttery mashed patatoes[2] 
Anyway, after about three refrences to throbing members[3] I hit the 
delete key.  Personaly, I have an overactive imagination, and given a bit 
of two characters and some suggestive passages I can come up with what 
happened between foreplay[4] and the next morning.  It might work if you 
can make it erotic, without making it cheesy.

[1] Ok,ok, a little lemon is ok.  You can't go wrong with a little lemon in
    your tea, but you can't just go around poping an entire lemon in your 
    mouth.  You'll look like Cologne
[2] ooops, Rincewind flashback....
[3] Not that theres anything wrong with throbing members, its just I have 
    yet to find an orginization that requires its members to throb.
[4] Not to be confused with fourplay which is another lemon on its own.
[5] Can you tell I've been rereading my Pratchett collection again?

2)  TIL Aftermath:  Shampoo's return to the Amazons.  This is an idea I
got from Sean Gaffney.  When Shampoo leaves Japan after Ranma and
Akane's marriage, she has a lot to answer for from the Amazon
matriarchs.  Mousse would have problems of his own.  I could also turn
this into a subtle case study of sexism, as we compare the
male-dominated culture of Japan to the mythically-female dominated
culture of the Chinese Amazons.  This may or may not be interesting.

I haven't read the story where you deal with Shampoo (WHA!), but if its 
anything like the other stuff I've read, I'd say go for it.

3)  Completely new story.  TIL hasn't happened, Akane and Ranma still

   [chop]

choose the Ranmaverse!"; remember, the grass is always greener....

That might be interesting...

So, whaddya think?  Which story would you like to see?

You mean I have to choose?!  Weeeellll, I like Kuno\Nabiki stories...
   -MJT