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Yukimura: You're whoring me out for a new roof?
Niou: And windows!

Renji is a family man.

Niou is soft and doughy in the centre. That is not a healthy state to be in. Dr. Yagyuu will have to give him a thorough check-up.

Selecting a time period for the next fic (also yakuza-universe) is proving difficult. I do have a time in mind that is perfect but have problems with working the background into the story without it being far too in-your-face. I mean, hands up anyone who knows the basics of 1) the Japan economy bubble in the 90's, 2) the Botaihou, and 3) the effect of the two on general syndicate operations? Of course, I write just what I want to write, but it needs to be readable to a certain extent, yanno? Ah, man. Sorry Renji, your story will just have to wait until I figure something out. Perhaps I'll keep it all vague.

Tenimyu going to Korea and Taiwan? Are they for real? Extremely WTF. >> (I can already imagine the Chinese fans crowding together at the airport to welcome them. Except Chinese fans are much scarier than Japanese fans. Oh dear.)

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It's hard to explain, because everyone expects something different from their reading. I mean, right now I'm reading a book called Speed Tribe, and you could see it as fiction, because it is a book of short stories. But the author has written it into a more "documentary" style, so that you get the story, and then you get some explanation of the background (the changes in economy, suburb life vs urban life in Tokyo... etc, reasons why the kids in the stories became the way they were) - which is fine by me because the book is marketed not as fiction but as something slightly more informational, but ultimately that's not what I want to write.

I think if a reader wants to learn something, say, Japanese history, they're better off looking into textbooks than going to read Rurouni Kenshin. What you learn from reading Kenshin is a bonus - but if Watsuki had stated fact after fact in his manga, it would've turned off the readers. Also, I'm the sort of person who dislikes having to read footnotes or author's notes in order to understand the story. The fics I've written so far which has footnotes only included the notes for geekery, and the fics could still be understood without them. I think that's really important as far as entertainment value goes. There are stories which make you interested in a topic and you go in search for more, which is good, and then there are stories which make you go "WTH?" because you need to have background knowledge and the author hasn't managed to work that into the story in a subtle manner.

Right now I'm having problems letting the background show through in the story in a way that doesn't make it look like a documentary. =/