Well I for one am ecstatic that it went over well with you two. It *is* long -- about as long as
a novelette or novella (not sure about which specific classification it belongs to), and it's
longer than a lot of successful *books*. Yet Dave and I had so much fun writing it -- and we
only wrote the one draft -- that it didn't take very long to write at all. So I didn't bother
asking what people thought of it. I was going to wait a few days to give people a chance to read
it at a leisurely pace.

In a couple days, I will feature the site in the journal and elaborate on more of the story of
its creation. There are a bunch of little anecdotes about its creation.

Diane, you asked if we'd do more. Actually, we have. Over the course of the year that followed
the writing of DotA (called originally called "The War," but titled DotA for release on the
web), I wrote a sequel story on my own called "Dimensional Dyslexia." Following that, Dave
began a third and final entry in the series, but that project hasn't been completed yet and is
currently in limbo. At any rate, Dimensional Dyslexia falls far short of the humor and fun of
"The War," and of course it lacks the most intriguing element of being written alternately
by Dave and myself, each of us struggling to make the story move in diametrically opposed directions.

Earlier this year, in an attempt to recreate the fun we had writing "The War," we started another
alternating story starring Dave's Gestald character and my Garandel character. The object
was not so much to fight with each other about which character was the most powerful (which
is why we chose these two characters -- they were never intended to be unfailingly heroic) but
to have each successive installment resolve plot twists introduced the segment before and introduce
still *more* for the next. It was more of a writing war that way, to see how ridiculously
complex we could make a story, yet still have it follow some weird semblance of continuity.

We've done about seven or eight chapters of that story, and then, of all things, Dave stopped. It's
been his turn to write for months, but he's had writer's block or something, and I know he was
unpleasantly jarred by my last admittedly disturbing installment.

Since you guys seem to like DotA, I suggest you send mail to Dave and urge -- ever so
politely, that is -- that he write the next installment so we can finish this story.