Subject: [FFML] Re:The Sun and the Stars, plus an Idea for more Original fics.
From: merryhwd@sover.net
Date: 9/22/1999, 7:05 AM
To: "Damien Hailey" <samas_1@hotmail.com>, ffml@fanfic.com

Hey, for an Original, this was pretty good.  I think it needed to be a
little more discriptive of the appearances of the mecha, though.

Noted, and I'll see what I can do. Having actual pictures and models for
them, I can go into EXTREME detail, my problem is that EXTREME detail is
D-U-L-L DULL with a capital DULL and I go a little too far the other way
in not providing enough description.

I was thinking, maybe we should add another tag to original fics, to tell
what kind of story it is, like this one had.  The [Mecha] Tag was what
really drew me to read this fic.

That's why I put it in there, the main reason I find myself shying away
from original stories is that there's so much volume I don't have time to
read something I don't at least have some idea that I'll like. Being that
the main characters are basically Gundam or Macross variable units with
a mind of their own, and those are two of the more universally appealing
mecha series, I figured that a genre tag might draw in people who'd enjoy
it enough to comment. As to officialy making genre tags for other
originals... well, it's not really for me to say, but if it worked once,
maybe it'll work again for others, no?

                                     -CrystaDrogn

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