On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Richard Lawson wrote:

Goosed wrote:

On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Geoffrey Ty wrote:

I'm considering several things when reading fanfics. Mostly its 
just simply the efort someone put into it, you can always tell 
when someone decided to just throw together a few ideas without
really thinking about it or putting forth any kind of real effort.

I just ran across one of those, but I'd rather not name names.

Why not?

<Begin:  Dennis Miller mode>

Forgive me for going off on a rant here, but people post fanfics on this
ML to get *exactly* that kind of feedback.  They *want* you to name
names.

If you read something, and it causes you to have that kind of
reaction...

LET THE WRITER KNOW!!!

Of course.  I should have rephrased that.  I should have said, I'll not
name names publically.  I've sent my C&C to the authors in question,
personally.  I'd rather not make that C&C public, since I know I'd feel
uncomfortable at seeing public criticism, even constructive criticism,
of a story of mine in particular.  In general however, I have no problem
saying something about bad punctuation, bad grammar, bad
characterization, flat dialogue, etc.

Damon Casale, scyth@andrew.cmu.edu
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