7. Personal notes
	Okay, now I'm going to break out of the relative objectivity and
put in my own opinion. Ranma got me started into anime. Ranma fanfiction
also got me started into anime fanfiction. And I am one of those who has
become tired of Ranma--both the anime and the fanfics. (Of course, what
I wrote about above does apply to me--established series and writers of
Ranma will still pull me, as well as a few other items of more personal 
note....) I do wish for more non-Ranma fiction, and that is why I've
given up on my Ranma fics for now. However well-received "These Are the
Days to Remember" was, just before I left school for the summer, I'm not
going to touch that for a long time--if ever again.

Actually, I'm also in the same boat as Andrew, which is suprising because
I've written for far less time than he has.  Frankly, when I started, all I
wanted to do was Ranma fics.  There were SO many questions left unanswered,
and I wanted to answer them for myself.  After writing a few fics, I
realized that I had truly explored the story's conclusion for myself, be it
in my own works or others. True, I'm dying to see what happens in DnR, and
in Lesson in Love, and in Hearts of Ice, but that's mostly because they're
SO well done I enjoy the writing in and of itself.

This is why I've switched to Sailor Moon, AMS, and Tenchi Muyo.  Tenchi
leaves a lot of quesitons unanswered, like Ranma, but hell, even the
authors go off on six different tangents, why can't I?  AMS is far too
interesting a concept to leave alone, and Sailor Moon has such potential
for romance and tradgedy I can't help but enjoy writing it.

I still write Ranma stuff here and there. "Also A Part...", my response to
Andrew's "I Am A Part..."  Hell, all those screwy twisted shortfics I do as
well.  But I doubt I'll ever write a series fic like "Here We Go Again" or
"Siblings" again, I just don't have the muse anymore.  The mental cinema
that I use to write fics just isn't there when it comes to Ranma.

Oh well, enough ranting, back to working on Ch 5 of OMB.

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Christopher Angel
cja124@mail.usask.ca      http://www.engr.usask.ca/~cja124
-The road to hell is paved with good intentions. -Old proverb.
-People forget that the same road leads to heaven. -Response