Subject: [FFML] Re: [Shortfic][Ranma]Akane's a Q? Oh No!
From: "Miller, Bert" <Bert.Miller@unisys.com>
Date: 10/31/2001, 5:56 PM
To: "'Jonathan Rosebaugh'" <skip@plover.net>
CC: ffml@anifics.com

Jonathan Rosebaugh wrote:
A pretty good spamfic, I suppose, but it's not to my taste.

Sorry to hear that, but thanks for writing anyway.

You simply can't do any real character development
with an omnipotent, omniscient character.

Agreed.

Giving Akane infinate power is fine for a spamfic, but it
could not work in a longer story.

It may or may not have been apparent in the story, but I
actually do agree with you on this.  I suspect the story
could have been a little longer than it was, but that there's
probably an upper limit of at most 150% of the length of mine.
And I've had at least one C&C-er say it should have been
significantly shorter than it was.

In the end, we prefer to hear stories about ourselves.
That's why even the Greek gods were essentially human.

I agree with this, too.  But, to my mind, the story is
about Akane, Ranma, etc, not about Q.

And Ranma does grow a bit, sort of:  given this incentive,
he learned to hold his tongue. ;)

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