From: PhilMasters@webtv.net (Phillip Masters)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:55:42 -0500 (EST)
To: ffml@fanfic.com
Subject: [FFML] My Recent Ranting

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I even love Sailor Moon fiction (not that there's
anything wrong with SM... I just get a lot of flak here at home for
liking it :P

Yeah, me too. ^w^

    All I had was a hope and a wish... that I could possibly enjoy
works of fanfiction based upon some of the other characters that I know
and love.

Yeah, but here's the big thing. Ranma and Sailor Moon are so popular 
that for a very many future otaku, it's the first thing that gets them 
interested in anime! <WARNING: SHAMELESS PLUG> My first work almost out 
of pre-production is Ranma Nibun no Usugurami. And the Fic I have lined 
up next, Sailor Moon D! I just wirte what I want.

"I'm only holding back the rain.  So many raindrops, so many pains.  I
want to find my train someday.  As seasons go past the station." - 

Tokyo

Babylon OVA 1
/ E-mail at:  PhilMasters@webtv.net /
Web page pending use of a computer!
"...has anyone ever used something alive for a coat of arms?" - The
Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea (Mishima Yukio, 1965) / 
"You see, what you call a cat, we use as armor." - Rune (El-Hazard,
1994)

What I think you have to see is that most of us, who are out there 
writing FanFiction, write it for one reason. We're not confident enough 
in ourselves yet to come up with original plots. So, we use FanFiction 
as a testing ground to strenghten our prose before we go out and write 
to publish. (I certainly see Lawson or Biles getting a book deal, don't 
you? Or, for that matter, do they?) So we turn to wherever there a whole 
heap of source material, and Ranma, Sailor Moon, and other have all 
that! Myself, I would like to see someone write a Fic based on You're 
Under Arrest! but there's not enough to work on. Four OAVs and one Dark 
Horse Publication. Until they import more of that, the characters in the 
Fics we base on them are two-dimensional. Another, I'm writing RNU 
because *it's my first time* and I want to feel confident about my 
writing. I'm sorry if that doesn't meet your standards but I *am* also 
writing for myself. And isn't *that* is why this list exists? To have 
people post what they *want*, without having to worry about some elitist 
trying to dictate what they *should*? No "market factors" exist in 
cyberspace, and no one *has* to listen to anyone else.

I'm glad you expresed your opinion, that's why we're here. But, please, 
don't try to stifle creativity in others, especially first-timers, lest 
they become zero-timers.

Thank you.

- Shakudo -

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