Another pass

[msisolak]

Mirrored from Marsha Sisolak.

through my bird story last night, trying to condense it.

I managed to shrink it nearly a page. But it’s still novella length, and I’d love to get this down to short story word count. I have three hundred words to go.

It’s very difficult because I have a voice that invokes a certain era, and I can’t chop it too much

Comments

[sartorias]

lol!

I found that fielding those questions with the easiest possible answers generally satisfied them. But any hedging, and they were quick to pounce.

[msisolak]

Exactly! So I wasn't even going in that direction, because I wasn't thinking fast enough. I would have needed another vat or two of coffee to have survived the initial shock and found an easy answer without sputtering.

[frigg]

And this is why I teach adults. ;)

[msisolak]

That is a bonus! Maybe in my next life, I will have learned.