On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Martin Bennett wrote:

I said (don't ask why it's like this):

As Sebastian staid in his long winded, but correct letter, most people
don't think very highly of otakufics, or their writers for that matter.
It seems, as Sebastian said, that there is just not much interest in
reading someone elses fantasy, and with good reason...

I know :)  However, it was a very useful experience, and one that
got me into writing fan fics.  I learned much about style and how
to write dialog into a story.  I used that knowledge in my latest
'The Promise' series, that starts with the okonomiyaki sauce episodes,
and branches outwards, into unknown territory :)

I've stuffed the new arrival onto the back burner, possibly to revive
it some day when I have too much time.  One of my first changes will
be to remove myself from that story, and turn it more into a bunch
of slapstick comedy, to contrast with the seriousness of The Promise.