View From the Bushes

Apparently the link I posted to the Wizards of the Coast Open Call I'm planning on entering didn't work. Clicking on the link, it appears that somehow a space got in there right at the end. Looking at the code, I didn't see any extra space, so I'm not sure what's happening. So in any case, I'll post it again, http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=books/main/opencall2004 along with the actual URL; hopefully that will work. As far as the writing itself goes, there's good news and bad news...

The good news is that, as far as I can tell, I'm a much better writer now than I was ten years ago when I started this book. Of course, that's the bad news as well, because most of the stuff I have from back then is going to need some serious rewriting before it can be used. Another piece of bad news is that while I managed to get the writing I had scheduled done on Saturday, that was basically all I got done and I didn't get a chance to do any DireKobold stuff. But I did have a commitment that got me up at 4:45 and lasted until 9 and then I was busy from 4:00 in the afternoon onward with another committment and hopefully, as I get back into the swing of things with writing it will go more quickly.

Finally, I would just like to link to one of the many stories about the 10-year old girl who was hand-cuffed as a result of an asinine, idiotic, repugnant zero-tolerance policy at a Philidephia elementary. To describe as moronic taking away a 10-year old in hand-cuffs for bringing scissors to school is to slander morons everywhere. But perhaps the word hasn't be invented which describes this in the terms necessary to encompass its full depth of idiocy. But speaking of morons, let's see what morons.org has to say on the subject.

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Ross