Friday Feedback: *Looks Around*

Um. Friday Feedback. Right. That post was just here.

*looks frantically around*


Er, I may be on serious project overload.


First, there was the whole my-back-went-out fiasco that knocked me off track for a week (don't panic, I have finally returned, as of yesterday, to the open water);




Yesterday, at the Dix Hills Diner....

Then there was the movie script that arrived in my email box Monday (?! Tuesday?!) that needed fast reading (at 97 pages, taking notes, took many hours...);



and, the "quick" Blogger Appreciation Week post that took me almost 4 hours  *coughs* (so, please, hang on its every word and visit every link!)



and, um, of course, there was the unexpected hour lost when my son, not immediately finding the correct dishwasher detergent,

Brady-Bunched the dishwasher...

That is my hubby scooping suds out with a plastic pitcher...

Anyway, I promise you, next week, we're back on track with a lovely guest-blogger you won't want to miss, but for this week,

we go all loosey-goosey again with a
Friday Feedback free-for-all.

In fact, you don't even need to read any of my crap this week; I'll just read yours. ;)

Go ahead, you know you want to.

Here are the RULES:

Please post between 3 -5 paragraphs, and no more -- 3 if the paragraphs are longer, no more than 5 if they are short.

If there's more, I reserve the right not to read.** I will offer some very basic feedback -- the only reasonable feedback that can actually be given from a brief excerpt:

• Does the piece "hook" me enough to make me want to keep reading;

• What else works for me and/or what doesn't;

• If you're super lucky (or super unlucky?) I may be moved to do a superspeed flash edit -- I will never change your words... only omit unneeded ones and/or change tenses to show how even a small edit like that can truly make a piece shine. As Orwell once said, "If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out." I believe this is mostly true.

Happy Friday. Happy writing. Hop to it.

- gae