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From: "Utmost diesel sales ltd. co." <utmost@edsamail.com.ph>
To: <FFML@anifics.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 2:33 PM
Subject: [FFML] Re: On C&C, Shoujo and the list in general Was Re: [C&C
response] The Shoujo Question

Aiyah,

As Asuza says..."Here we go agaiin!"

Parry: You are missing my point.  This is not about
C&C- it's about shoujo! While I'm admittedly annoyed
about the KIND of C&C shoujo gets when it DOES get
C&C'ed, I'm even MORE annoyed about the general...
dislike the list has towards it, or so I feel.

Block: Since when has Shoujo been publicly dissed?  If there's an

Anti-shoujo faction in the ML it's vewy, vewy quiet...

Parry: Agreed.  I'm just saying shoujo seems PRONE to
it, moreso than most genres.

Block: Chi-ga-u!  There is an equal chance of Shoujo, shonen or mainstream

anime/fanfiction to be misinterpreted... Hell, far as I know, the guy who
created the Urutsokidoji series (did I get the name right?) might even have
a hidden message he wanted to express.  My point is that it's the duty of
the author to show his/her audience what he/ she wants to get across.

I'd like to throw in a point I used to make in the hoary days of yore
on the FFML, when men were men and women were women, as
opposed to now, where men are men, and women are women... damn.
Anyway, my point: You have to remember whom your audience is.
Also remember that you, the author, are in the enviable position of
_being able to pick your audience_. Most everything I had written
(quiet you! I wrote! I wrote! I really did! Check out the El Hazard
archives on RAAC if you want proof!) was not written for everyone.
I said to myself I want my reader to be someone who is interested
in X and in Y. It did not matter to me if it was accessable to
everyone, because I was not interested in the "Lowest Common
Denominator" and would put things in it which the reader had to,
well, look for.

Also, I do believe in the validity of several viable interpretations: again,
to use myself as an example for reasons related to ease of use and
not trying to brag, I have had readers point something out in a story
of mine that I did not think of, and then when I read it over I think to
myself, "But of course! It's so obvious! ...hey, that's kinda cool."

Regarding quality and quantity... wouldn't it be better to make a lot of

good fics rather than making a whole lot of fics that are not so good?  If
you establish yourself as a good (read: Lawson/Perry/Zen level) writer then
you could raise the flag of Shoujo as much as you want.  A wise person once
said: It is best to defeat the beast from within (don't ask me who said it,
I've got a memory like a sieve).  Maybe the same applies to the list ne?


It has been said that one of the good things about writing with a series
less written about is that while you may have less of an audience
(something I never cared about, and is not necessarily a bad thing), you
do have less competition and people are less likely to say, "Yes, but
you're just ripping off so-and-so, who did it far better anyway." It can
work-- it did for me, at any rate. :)




--As a final note: See! I can post Non-Admin messages, too!
And now I leave to get married-- be good while I'm gone, peoples!


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