On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Edward Liu wrote:

Nicholas, I think I see what you meant by asking if I was sure...

Cynewulf?!  Either write it now or don't bother.

The former, if you can.  I think I recall your ideas on the work...a 
little too much alcohol, am I right?  

At 03:33 PM 2/20/97 -0600, Nicholas Leifker <nwl9354@unix.tamu.edu> wrote:

Well, I always was a masochist...

Judging from your previous works?  Yeppers! :)

Well, it's nice to stay consistent...

Any and all C&C is appreciated.  

Leifker (nwl9354@unix.tamu.edu) presents...

<SNIP>

    Ranma took the object and sat down, the courage he showed dissolving
in his solitude.  The crossroads he faced was frightening even to him, 
and he would need all the strength he could muster.  He closed his eyes, 
and let the spectre of memory come to him...

Are you trying to rend our minds assunder with the suspense presented here?

Yes.

*shrug* I always was a sucker for suspense.

Hey, it could be worse.  One of my prereaders suggested Ranma not inform 
Ukyou of anything until after the deed was done.

Unfortunately, on a more primal level...it did matter.

Not according to Kun-chan, it don't! ^_^

Sorry, we are NOT turning this thing into a lemon!  

Not yet, anyway... ^_^

    Ranma looked over to her daughter.  The child looked genuinely
concerned about something.  "Daddy...am I gonna change into a boy?"

<G> They're so cute when they're all innocent like that!

I loved writing Aoi's comments for the work.  

Then, 14 years later, they're asking for the keys to the car... *sob*

Heh.

the thought of being a (icky!) boy terrifying her.

<G>

    Fighting down more flippant responses, Ranma nodded.

Yet another manner in which the years have changed him...

(nod)

Thanks to all the prereaders who gave and got heck on this one, in no 
particular order: Sebastian Weinberg, Doug Reeves, Richard Lawson, James 
Bateman, Louis-Philippe Giroux, Kelly Schultz, Christopher Willmore, Eric 
Lai, Mike Loader.  This one had me panicked more than any other work 
before, simply because of what it was following and what it was adding 
to.  

Well, you certainly have a work here that at least meets and possibly exceeds
the high expectations you've set for yourself with regards to the Sunrise
continuity.  You must've went through hell to get this finished, but it seems
the net result is well worth the effort.

You don't know the half of it.  The first draft gave me something to eat: 
the prereaders sliced, diced, and made Julienne fries out of it.

Your story has excellent closure and I for one would be perfectly happy if
your Sunrise timeline ended here.  Do you have any more plans for it?

Yes, I do have a few ideas floating around, though I don't know if/when 
I'll pursue them.  

Exquisitely done, and keep writing!

Thank you.

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