I shouldn't criticize Lady Rosesong.

[betweensunandmoon]

Sure, her stories are boring, she writes everyone OOC, her character-bashing tendencies anger me, and her modus operandi is using Phantom characters to retell stories that aren't remotely related to Phantom. But I'm no better at writing Christine in character than she is and my ideas are all just as terrible, so what right have I to judge her? And I can't help envying her dedication--she wrote forty-three chapters out of what was to be a forty-five-chapter fic, and they weren't short chapters! Had she not vanished off the face of the Internet, I have no doubt that Erik, the Date Phantom and The Mask and the Slipper would have ended up being of similarly epic length. I, on the other hand, tend to lose interest after a few chapters, if I start writing at all. I almost wish she'd stuck around, if only so I could make a few sly crossover suggestions of my own and witness the results.

Oh, yeah, I'm back. Hi. *waves*

Comments

[igenlode]

Hi :-)

You've discovered one of the unspoken truths of fanfiction -- it takes a lot of determination to get beyond the first few chapters of a story. (Of course, this is one of the advantages of basing your story on someone else's plot; at least you know where it's going. But even then it's rare for them to get to the end.)

Speaking of character-bashing... this one managed to get right up my nose with the first chapter. I mean, if you want Christine to be an unmarried mother bringing up Raoul's child named (wince) Aria, there have got to be more plausible ways of doing it than having him seduce her with a line like "A final proclamation of my love for you, my Little Lotte" and then have him randomly jump into bed with a girl called Sierra (for no apparent reason other than that the author finds it convenient to her desired plot). Also, see lecherous drug-addict Philippe as the arbitrary villain of the chapter...