Subject: An experiment you can do at home (was: Top 10 Reasons to Kill a Fanfic author)
From: bastian@enterprise.mathematik.uni-essen.de (Sebastian Weinberg)
Date: 11/15/1996, 3:11 PM
To: Fanfiction ML
Reply-to:
bastian@enterprise.mathematik.uni-essen.de

I've got an idea for all of you with too much free time on their
hands (And I know you are out there).  It was sparked by this:

 On Sat, 9 Nov 1996 22:57:34 -0800 (PST) Mouse said:

: On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Adam Barnes wrote:
: 
: > TOP TEN REASONS FOR BRUTALLY KILLING A FANFIC AUTHOR:
: 
: > 7. Their fic begins "Well, I never saw/read the anime/manga, but my
: > friend told me all about it..."
: 
: If someone mentions this one more time I will do it I swear! I have never 
: seen any anime or read any manga! ^_-


Now how about this... 

If you have a friend who is interested in writing, why don't you
give him or her a selection for fanfics, let them read all, and
then tell him or her to write another fic, based purely on the
knowledge gained from these fics.  If a lot of us do this, we
might learn something from this.

Then again, we might not.

Anyway, let's try.


Sebastian (I already know somebody to try this on)
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