>>(She makes him feel so old. One of these days I'll have to
>>have him moan about it to Kei. :)
>
>Is that like the moaning about age around the New Year's celebrations?
>^_^

Not really. That was more of a joking thing, "Bah, I'm getting old, all I want to do tonight is sit around and not do anything." With Utena, there's the much more direct elderly feeling one gets when pretty girls call one "mister". :)

(That happened to me at a shopping mall a few months ago. I was going in the side entrance, and a raver chick said, with all apparent sincerity, "I love your shoes, Mister." Strange feeling. Now add a few hundred years of life experience, don't increase the chemical maturity level, and try again. It's a curiously conflicted state of mind, and largely new to Our Hero. He's going to have to get used to it. :)

>Beginnings are somewhat easier to deal with but are the most likely to
>stall out on me; all of a sudden, the characters just shut up and I
>have to go and do something else until they feel like talking again.

Mm, yes... there's a reason why I have so many universes, and none of them are finished. Although I tend to have the hardest times with middle parts. A lot of my drafts end up with a beginning, an end, and a bunch of gaps that I have the damnedest time filling.

--G.
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