Subject: [FFML] [C&C][Ranma][alt]Surreal Genius very partial 7
From: "Nibun Yuri" <pinku_chan@hotmail.com>
Date: 7/4/2000, 6:44 PM
To: "Brendan O'Donnell" <brenda02@sprynet.com>
CC: <ffml@fanfic.com>

After reading partway through your fic, I decided just to stick these
Words of Advice up here, Mr. O'Donnell, from a lowly schoolgirl ^_~:

I can't stress this enough, but run your fic through a spell checker.
It's not fair, being lazy, and then just tossing it to us to pick at.  Run
it through several versions of spell-checkers if you want.  Also:  "I
before E except after C."  You seem to have a pretty good vocabulary (or a
great thesaurus), though, so keep up the good work.  :)

If you start a sentence with a preposition (i.e., "Blinking, Akane ran,"
or "Using the small keypad, Ranma turned it off,"), add a comma after the
prepositional clause-thingy.

In dialogue, if you address a person, ("Hey, Ranma, what'd you do?"), you
set the name apart from the rest of the sentence with commas.

If you use a word as a name, capitalize it.  ("Mom made dinner?" as
opposed to "My mom made dinner.")

Dialogue--"Sounds interesting," Nabiki said INSTEAD OF "Sounds
interesting." Nabiki said.  If Nabiki is asking a question or exclaiming
something, forget the comma.  OR "Sounds interesting."  Nabiki covered up
a yawn.  She SAYS it, but you don't SAY that she said it, so you're free
to have the period.  (I understand that this doesn't make much sense; I'm
no English teacher.  :P)

Nibun


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