Today in the ongoing Education of Moe Lane came the mentoring on the concept of slack time (my wife knows some of the management wyrding ways, you see). So, since I can’t do some of the things that I would like to do for a week or so more, she suggested that I do some of the things that were deemed lower-priority, but I could do now. My wife’s very smart that way.
So I fiddled with the short story sampler. Took one of the short stories, killed all the “thats” that I needed it to, and sent it off to a volunteer to let him pick at it some more. I do this a bunch more times, the sampler’s done and I just need to prep it for publication. And I advance a little on the checklist! Win-win.
Moe Lane
PS: If you have an interest in critiquing stories in such a fashion, drop me a line.