Subject: Ideas
From: Ben Williamson
Date: 8/4/1997, 3:16 AM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com


Hi everyone.

I am dying to write a fanfic, but I can't think of any good ideas.  I haven't 
watched any anime in about 2 months, but I have read some manga.  Mostly Ah My 
Goddess and Grappler Baki, but also some Boy's Be (Anyone heard of this?  If so 
private-email me) and random CLAMP goodies.

Ugh.  I am feeling sorta creative, I just need an idea to get started on.  I 
don't actually care about plot too much... I like writing about characters and 
emotions more than anything else.  But I am willing to be I can write martial 
arts scenes pretty darned well.  Maybe.  _I_ would like them, since I am such a 
stickler for "realism".  Speaking of which if anyone is writing a fanfic with 
some martial arts scenes and you feel like you need a reality check, toss it 
here =).

If I wrote a Grappler Baki fic, would anyone read it?  It would probably have 
very little action actually... I am starting to like the character's personality 
(god forbid).  I was thinking of writing a fic that alternated between 
introspections by Kozue and Baki, about life and about each other.  But I don't 
know if anyone likes Baki, or even knows who he is.

My problem is I don't even like most of the "mainstream" anime stuff.  I don't 
like Dragonball, Ranma, or Sailor Moon, and I have not watched Evangelion.  I 
don't feel confident enough to write a Fushigi Yuugi fanfic as the story seems 
very self-contained.  That leaves Ah My Goddess I guess, but what could I say 
that hasn't already been said?

Oh yeah, I entirely forgot the two series that I actually HAVE written about =P. 
KOR and VGAi.  Oops...

Maybe I should get around to writing the ultra stupid otaku-fic where I ask 
Satsuki from X for a date, hop into Fushigi-Land to avoid her subsequent 
wrath (good thing I have a beeper!), take Tama (the cat, not the kick-butt 
martial artist) hostage, Trade some twix bars and the most recent SMAP album to 
a Nyan Nyan to get teleported back to VGAi-world and threaten to make Violin 
strings if Mitsukake doesn't come and help out a certain cute girl... what do 
you think?  =P.

Sigh.  Someone thwap me with an idea =).  

"Benkyou, Benkyou."

-Ben Williamson