At 01:51 PM 5/21/98 -0500, you wrote:

In the wake of these WONDERFUL commercial spamfic ads,
we've seen people that have never written a THING
suddenly come out and put out.
That's nice.  Really.

Ooo. It IS nice, Rod. All these lurkers coming out and posting. And all
started by THE Lurker.

It would be nicer if it wasn't ALL AT ONCE, though.

Now that this little spamfest is in full bloom, I'd
like to ask all you aspiring and suddenly prolific
writers something.
Write a story.  Write a full blown story.  I'm talking
about something at least 20K in size.  Something with
a modest plot to it.

What? Over 20k? I don't even do that often with my REGULAR fics!

You folks have dipped your feet in the writing pool,
now it's time to swim.  Okay?

Tell'em Rod.

So, Rod... Now that you've painted a huge bullseye on yourself, what do you
do when the flame mail comes in?

Good luck, have fun, and get to it..

Don't take this the wrong way, but I think you've ticked off quite a few
rabid adfic writers who don't know better than to take this post personally.

Good luck with the hornets nest. This is my last post on the subject.

And when's the next part of Surreal World coming out, huh?

-rpm

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