Hmmmmmmmm... well, I guess this is all one can expect from someone posting
from aol ........ ^^;;;

Kun-chan...

>From the desk of Doughboy:

My friends on the FFML (I'm not subscribed) tell me that I should speak up.
 I'm working on a revision to A Real Man, mainly because the response to the
sappy ending was not what I expected.  I thought readers would be more
cynical about the Ranma I portrayed, who is amoral at best and misogynistic
at worst.  Instead, people have used words like "redemption" and "reformed"
to describe the conclusion.  I wanted it to be more ambiguous. So I'm
revising, trying to dim some of the light shining people perceived in that
last scene.

In addition, I'm putting in more crudely creative terminology, so you sickos
who laughed before should find it even more hilarious.  I'm also increasing
the sex and drugs, so you decent people who were offended know not to even
bother reading it.

There was little reaction to the dialogue-only sequel, and the few responses
were disinterestedly negative.  I'm going to try to beef it up.  But I'm not
quite ready to give up on the dialogue-only (no narrative, no script-style
visual cues) experiment, and I want to keep the ominous ending.

A "prequel" is also in the works, written around some ideas that I didn't
have the nerve to put in A Real Man.  To know how evil they are, you need
only three words: Kodachi.  Happosai.  Nodoka.  The Kodachi story is not what
you expect; it's worse.  The Happosai story IS what you expect.  As for
Nodoka, Ranma does not commit incest, but it's almost as bad.  I trying to
decide on a writing style for the prequel.  having used first person and
dialogue only, I could go with the old standbys (regular 3rd person narration
or script format) or try to come up with something more unusual.

I'm gratified that others are writing their own stories inspired by mine.  I
just wish they were as funny.

dough1001@aol.com