TatewkiKno@AOL.COM wrote:

Well, regardless as to whether or not I should wait a while before posting 
this, I'm just going to do it.  I'm considering writing a Ranma 1/2 fanfic 
series, but I'm not sure what kind of appeal the plot will have.  It's going 

Standard procedure is, first ya write yer fic, THEN ya get yer C&C. :)

to take place in Nerima/Furinkan High the year before Ranma shows up.  Kasumi 
is a senior, Kuno and Nabiki are sophomores, Akane, Hiroshi, Daisuke, Yuki, 
and Sayura are freshmen.  Main characters will be Kuno, Kasumi, Akane, and 
Nabiki, roughly in that order as far as importance.  Secondary characters 
will include Hiroshi and Daisuke, various members of the Kendo club, and some 
characters I need to create.  Kasumi will be the most sought-after girl on 
campus as opposed to Akane, Kuno will do some butt-kicking and begin building 
himself up into the potential legend he was before Ranma showed up, and Akane 
will be a more feminine character, as well.

That's a lot of seemingly arbitrary changes in the characters. Do these
changes yield enough new story potential to make them worthwhile? Maybe
they do, but offhand I don't see how....

 I'm looking for a fresh new spin 
on Ranma 1/2, but I'd like to hear any comments anyone has on the idea.  If 
you think it's a totally worthless idea, don't be at all hesitant to say so.  

Okay, I think it's totally worthless. Not because it's particularly bad
as ideas go, but because pretty much ALL ideas of this form are totally
worthless. You haven't told us what we need to know in order to see
where the value of it is. Okay, so you have these altered characters.
Now what happens to them? How will they be interacting? Where is the
conflict? Until you can tell us this, all you have is a premise -- NOT a
story -- and premises are a dime a dozen. It's how you develop them into
stories that counts.


Gary Kleppe
http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics.html