-----Original Message-----
From:	Ranma Al'Thor [SMTP:ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu]
Sent:	Tuesday, September 08, 1998 5:14 PM
To:	FFML
Subject:	Re: [FFML] [Spam..sorta] ATTENTION ALL AUTHORS again

On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Kaoru L. Shimitsu wrote:

    I agree with Caroline.... in many respects about the Lemon stuff.

Us

I don't.  I think she's whining.  She's perfectly capable of writing
something without a lemon component if she really wants to.  And there is
no natural law that says they have to accept anything with a lemon
component, any more than they have to accept stories written in
Serbo-croatian or which are paraphrases of the 1929 Labour party
manifesto.  It's their contest, they can set whatever limits they want.

Get a life.

	[Row David]  The problem I have with the above is that the people
running this contest have NOT defined what they will and will not accept re
sexual or similar content.
	As far as I am aware, there _is_ no actual definition of what a
lemon is, just a sort of commonly accepted convention that certain stories
should be defined that way.

	Now, the contest folk also banned 'lemon-scented'  - whatever that
is!
	Does that mean no physical contact between adults, no kissing, no
naked scenes, what??

	They are supposed to be running the contest, they should get their
act together and define the rules!

	Becuase of the above, I do feel Caroline is right to feel peeved, as
she has no idea what she can or cant do to make a story fit a set of
pretty-undefined rules.

	After all, NO lemon 'components' is a pretty vague statement.

	For example, I suspect that if I wrote a description of a naked
character, that woudl be a lemon component.
	Now, if I write a description of the same character in, say, a
bikini, is that a lemon component?

	(I assure you, I can make the bikini description a LOT more erotic!!
:)

	[Row David]  <snip>
	 

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