Actually I liked the prologue. I have of course read book 7 but I don't think it really hurts. Its not pages and pages long and it is just long enough to establish Dudly's age, and softening of attitude. What I think gets long is when people insist on retelling the entire start of the ranma epoch from china word and line by line this avoids that and so I think its alright.
On 8/22/07, Robert Atendido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for your comments! > > >Blah, blah, blah. You're falling into what I call the "Sandborn Effect": > >starting your fic with a bunch of expository stuff. Nothing turns off > >readers like huge blocks of uninteresting text to begin a story. (Mind > you, > >Greg got a lot better at this and in fact went back to correct this in > some > >of his earlier fics.) > > Yeah, I'm afraid I do this a lot. For some reason, I get into the frame > of mind that says the person reading my story might not have all the > background information at hand. It's like I forget the target audience of > fanfic... > > Actually, I used to write out the obvious in papers for college classes as > well. A couple of English profs cured me of that for a while. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.chez-vrolet.net/pipermail/ffml/attachments/20070827/c049bbbc/attachment.htm --- .-------Anime/Manga Fanfiction Mailing List--------. | Administrators - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Unsubscribing - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Put 'unsubscribe' in the subject | `------------ FAQ URL coming soon.... -------------'
