Well, I just finished editing a short story. It’s hopefully the last of the structural edits. Next up: the polishing edits. That’s where I go through on an adverb slaughter, brush up everything and smooth it all out. Then it’s off to submit it to ye olde publisher in the vain hope that I can some day con an agent into representing me so that I can make millions of dollars and then type extremely long run-on sentences in blog posts that ultimately end up not only being run on sentences but also incomplete sentences since no one likes an incomplete sentence like this one to go to waste when it could instead be used for nefarious purposes by those who have nothing better to do with their time other than examine such things (I blame Bush, and also the hamster-wheel philosophy; but who’s counting?) and therefore I shall do
