Rendezvous Fate reviewer
So... today I got an unexpected review, from a fic I wrote decades ago... unfortunately the reviewer doesn't allow PMs in FF.N and the review was very nice and unexpected so I wanted to at least in part write back here, in LJ even if trngmy never sees this post.
Before that, I would like to share the review of Rendezvous with Fate here:
I have read countless of fanfics based on RanmaxAkane, no fanfics had ever came near to perfection and beautiful story like yours. The plot, the characters, and the format was all excellent and well written. I applaud to you for your effort. I have been reading your story and following it ever since it was published, I was afraid it will never be completed but now I'm actually sad that it is completed lol. My most favorite part is when Akane decided to give up on her and ranma's relationship and decided to give him the divorce that she thought he wanted it. Another part when Akane tried to make her way to Rose Brier. I was hoping for more Ranma's and Akane's relationship development when Akane was no longer Kodachi. I felt there wasn't enough there, like something was missing. How Ranma's felt about Akane (aka Kodachi) should be different when Akane was no longer Kodachi, you know? Kodachi was his wife in the first place so giving himself a second chance to love Kodachi was different. I'm not sure where I am going with this because I don't actually. I just feel like there could be more development on Ranma's and Akane's part when she was no longer kodachi. But I'll take the epilogue just the way it is! It's still good! I hope you will write another story similar to this.
I hope you'll write more Ranma and Akane story in the future. I know it took you years and years to write this one, but you're such a great and fantastic writer (hard to find these days). Good job!
Soo, I just wanted to say thanks for the review! It really means a lot especially since I wrote this such a long time ago, it was initially based off a book that I read and then I had to go back and re-write the beginning parts so that it was really distinct and not a copy of the book with new names on it.
On the part that you were hoping for a longer part when Akane was already "Akane" unfortunately, during that time, it had already been years since I started the fic, and it was already a struggle writing it. The fic is already 500,000 ++ words as it was, and though I would ahve loved to ramble on and on about the world, I thought 10 years + 500,000 words was enough for Rend to end. While I do know that Ranma and Akane as they were would ahve been good to write, I was running out of ideas and at that point I hadn't watched/read Ranma in a while to proplerly write it as fanfiction, and that probably lead to the feeling that the relationship was more underdeveloped as Ranma and Akane and not Akane-in-Kodachi.
As for writing another Medieval Japan story, while research is easier now than it was when I was writing this (you have no idea how many books I had to go to to get Feudal Japanese history for this story to just flow as it is) I am now a complete graduate of the University (for... quite some time now) and there are no good city libraries in my country, so research will be difficult other than the few resources that you can find in the net. Hello Wikipedia.
If you meant writing more RanmaxAkane, again unfortunately, It's been a while since I've watched/read the show. And while Ranma has been my first love, and introduced me to fanfic writing, it has been a while, and I can't get into their headspace anymore.
I have progressed to writing DeanXCas XD and though that is the first and probably last slash pairing that I am ever going to write, I am still having fun with them. Although I am writing I am writing very slowly nowadays because I am actively in fellowship (it's a training program for doctors, and it eats time like you wouldn't believe).
Also, I am not a native english speaker and a natural introvert. So... it's very difficult for me to find beta-readers and I really need them to look over technical aspects of the language. I'm pretty sure Rend is filled with technical English errors that are... well there. I had pre-readers for it, but over the 10 year course of writing it, I had several changes of pre-readers and it shows. Plus a lot of the pre-readers lose interest after the first few chapters, especially since I write very sporadically. I'm very thankful to those who stuck through started from finish to the end.
Again, thank you for writing! And Rend has given me so many friends over the years, really. It is unfortunate that fandom is a really fickle world and I have actually lost track of a lot of them over the years, but yeah growing up, a lot of my internet friends were from rend. I was from an age of the FFML, and I hate discussion boards (I still very much do) so yeah. In any case! Hopefully you see this somehow!
Before that, I would like to share the review of Rendezvous with Fate here:
I have read countless of fanfics based on RanmaxAkane, no fanfics had ever came near to perfection and beautiful story like yours. The plot, the characters, and the format was all excellent and well written. I applaud to you for your effort. I have been reading your story and following it ever since it was published, I was afraid it will never be completed but now I'm actually sad that it is completed lol. My most favorite part is when Akane decided to give up on her and ranma's relationship and decided to give him the divorce that she thought he wanted it. Another part when Akane tried to make her way to Rose Brier. I was hoping for more Ranma's and Akane's relationship development when Akane was no longer Kodachi. I felt there wasn't enough there, like something was missing. How Ranma's felt about Akane (aka Kodachi) should be different when Akane was no longer Kodachi, you know? Kodachi was his wife in the first place so giving himself a second chance to love Kodachi was different. I'm not sure where I am going with this because I don't actually. I just feel like there could be more development on Ranma's and Akane's part when she was no longer kodachi. But I'll take the epilogue just the way it is! It's still good! I hope you will write another story similar to this.
I hope you'll write more Ranma and Akane story in the future. I know it took you years and years to write this one, but you're such a great and fantastic writer (hard to find these days). Good job!
Soo, I just wanted to say thanks for the review! It really means a lot especially since I wrote this such a long time ago, it was initially based off a book that I read and then I had to go back and re-write the beginning parts so that it was really distinct and not a copy of the book with new names on it.
On the part that you were hoping for a longer part when Akane was already "Akane" unfortunately, during that time, it had already been years since I started the fic, and it was already a struggle writing it. The fic is already 500,000 ++ words as it was, and though I would ahve loved to ramble on and on about the world, I thought 10 years + 500,000 words was enough for Rend to end. While I do know that Ranma and Akane as they were would ahve been good to write, I was running out of ideas and at that point I hadn't watched/read Ranma in a while to proplerly write it as fanfiction, and that probably lead to the feeling that the relationship was more underdeveloped as Ranma and Akane and not Akane-in-Kodachi.
As for writing another Medieval Japan story, while research is easier now than it was when I was writing this (you have no idea how many books I had to go to to get Feudal Japanese history for this story to just flow as it is) I am now a complete graduate of the University (for... quite some time now) and there are no good city libraries in my country, so research will be difficult other than the few resources that you can find in the net. Hello Wikipedia.
If you meant writing more RanmaxAkane, again unfortunately, It's been a while since I've watched/read the show. And while Ranma has been my first love, and introduced me to fanfic writing, it has been a while, and I can't get into their headspace anymore.
I have progressed to writing DeanXCas XD and though that is the first and probably last slash pairing that I am ever going to write, I am still having fun with them. Although I am writing I am writing very slowly nowadays because I am actively in fellowship (it's a training program for doctors, and it eats time like you wouldn't believe).
Also, I am not a native english speaker and a natural introvert. So... it's very difficult for me to find beta-readers and I really need them to look over technical aspects of the language. I'm pretty sure Rend is filled with technical English errors that are... well there. I had pre-readers for it, but over the 10 year course of writing it, I had several changes of pre-readers and it shows. Plus a lot of the pre-readers lose interest after the first few chapters, especially since I write very sporadically. I'm very thankful to those who stuck through started from finish to the end.
Again, thank you for writing! And Rend has given me so many friends over the years, really. It is unfortunate that fandom is a really fickle world and I have actually lost track of a lot of them over the years, but yeah growing up, a lot of my internet friends were from rend. I was from an age of the FFML, and I hate discussion boards (I still very much do) so yeah. In any case! Hopefully you see this somehow!