I'd say just wait till nighfall

I would not wish to disturb a dead man's wish, even if I have a score to settle with them. I would dig at 0000.

page scanning maybe?

let me tell you what i think is a good story. a story that makes me read it. sound weird?

i have been a professional page scanner for probably twenty years.

i have read more gun fights, sword fights, and space wars - than i can remember.

here's how it works -

read with interest/get to swordfight/scan to end of swordfight to see who lives/read with interest.

i have been using an internal google system for quite some time. i operate on keywords. many times, depending on the author, i will scan paragraphs for key words, while my brain is trying to figure out what i will be having for lunch.

many of the horror stories, especially shorts are the same for me. so i will habitually jump paragraphs, read five or six words, move on, rinse/repeat - get to the end.

some of you guys really screw me up. i will go through one or two paragraphs and in the middle of the third - i realize there is information i need in the previous paragraph. so i end up reading the whole story.

that's the kind of story i like, one that i have to read in order to catch content.

some evil folks (i'm innocent of this) have a tendency to put a curve into the end and force me to read the whole story just because i know who wrote it. i won't mention any names, but their initials are, um.. potter, chris, quinn, yanu, collet to mention a few.

so the message is, i think, don't follow the trend. don't write about the same thing - write about something.

make us have to read your story!

smile!

Note 10 should be hitting the screens in about 24 hours or so...

smile!

yay

Not only do I say yay, I say yeah!

okay, number 11 has been uploaded - and number 12 is in the works.

i've been running a different machine at work and the shorter cycle times is slowing down my writing...

don't you just hate when work gets in the way of play?

january is almost gone.

how about that?