On Wed, 09 Sep 1998 11:25:00 PDT, Chris Tendo wrote:

Dennis Carr wrote...

(I was rambling on something about AM's, um, very terse C&C...)

I have found absolutely none, unless you count his vociferous opinions
as content.

And what, pray tell, will you ever find in any C&C that is not, on some 
level, opinion?

Pretty much nothing really.  If I'm going to be told that my fic is
boring, bland, torturous to read, etc., I would like an explanation as
to why these adjectives are being applied to my fanfic.  An opinion is
not much of a C&C, it just tells you that somebody doesn't like your
story.

If you don't like C&C, why the hell are you on this list?

Chris, it's not that I don't like C&C, I don't like AM's C&C - or any
that are in the fashion of "this is boring" or "this is bland", which
seems to be his standard C&C.  When one does that (and this applies to
anybody, by the way), they're coming off as very closed minded (the
recent last wish fanfic with Ukyo is a perfect example of this) - and
IMHO, the purpose of fanfiction is to exercise your creative engines;
including characters, inserting characters, removing characters, and/or
putting them in situations where they would otherwise not be caught
dead in.  (The latter is one thing Trakal and I are doing with
Unfinished Business - theoretically, Aeka would *never* consider having
a romantic relationship with anyone less than those in the royal
class.)

If one feels we shouldn't go against a series' canon, that's his
problem, but it pretty much puts one's creative energies into a
horribly tight squeeze.

With that, I'm putting a close to this before either a) this evolves
into a flame war, or b) Tybalt lays down the law.


Dennis Carr - KE6ISF
ke6isf@nerv.nu

"You want to know the difference between a neurotic and a psychotic?  
The neurotic believes that two plus two equals four, but it really bothers 
them. The psychotic believes that two plus two equals five."        -Dach