Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 10:40:34 +1000 (EST)
   From: Caroline Ann Seawright <kunoichi@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>

   >    > >> p.s. I might write a lemon side story for L & L.  I don't know
   >    > >> how well I will do. Read a lot of romance novels... never
   >    > >> written one. If you want to have me write one, lemme
   >    > >> know. Will definately be more Kun-chan style... not Martial
   >    > >> Arts Lovemaking style. Hey, I am pretty conservative actually
   >    > >> :) If it is worth it... well... it depends on your response.
   >    > >Girl style romance/lemon is better written by girls than
   >    > >boy style lemons anyway... ^_^
   >    > Yeah! Lemons written by girls tend to have STORIES!!!
   >    Amazing, that... I guess girls want romance as well (hence all those
   >    romance novels) where guys just want to... er... get down to it (hence
   >    all those play boy magazines). *shrug*
   > Please go easy on the male bashing; a good fraction of the lemon's
   > written by men pay attention to minor details like stories,
   > relationships, and sometimes even romance.

   I've only seen maybe three or four lemons by guys, out of the hundreds, like
   that... Maybe I'm missing all the minor details somewhere...

Hundreds!?!!?!  I must bow to your superior sample space....

(Where do you find all these?)

Anywa, I think I'd count somewhat more than 3 or 4, but I don't
particularly pay attention to the gender of authors, so I'd have to
double check.

   You all mention that SP lemon one a lot... the part that I saw was
   just a sex fest with a whole lot of way too violent stuff thrown in
   and everyone was totally OOC and it wasn't even slightly focused on
   a story like, relationships or even anything like romance... It was
   a fuck/violence fest, basically...

I, and I suspect the author and other fans of Split Personalities,
would appreciate it if you were to stop criticising it so strongly
without having read the preceeding 5 and 1/2 parts (around 60%).  And
as the author freely admits, he was well past where he'd intended to
stop, and wasn't writting good stuff, due to fan demand.

I mean, if I were to jump into your epic around when Ryouga/U-chan and
Konatsu/Akari were (getting married, or whatever) without having read
the parts that paired them up (or knowing you'd paired the former
before you learned about Akari), I wouldn't necessarily have too high
an opinion of your story.

SP has a very nice relationship building Ranko/U-chan arc, plus (by
design) about the most un-romantic Ranma/Akane bedroom scene in lemon
history (and no, the rest of you don't have to take that up as a
challenge).  It depends on what you're trying to write; the first and
good part of SP is mostly a psycology study (and the early lemon parts
even have alternatives).

   > Each gender has its strengths in writing lemons; men tend to do better
   > in writting about the physical side of things (at least from this
   > male's perspective).

   That's because men write what they know and girls write what they know, I
   guess...

Umm, I'd say it's more a matter of relative focus....

					- Harold