Made a tad bit of progress on a new One World story yesterday, only about 250 words, but a start. I've had the story in mind for a while now but still don't really know what it's about (hence my failure to have started it sooner), but maybe I can muddle my way through it. Today I'm going to work on it some more, but first will go over "The Place That Makes You Happiest" one last time then get it printed up and into an envelope and ready to go (though I won't mail it for another two weeks).

Finished up the rewrite of "The Hearts of Men" today and employed my new editing technique, and found it very useful for finding typos and making final changes, so I think I'll add that to my checklist of stuff to do prior to submittal. I'm a little too high-strung right now to work on anything so I think I'll treat myself to some Age of Empires 2 for the rest of the day.

And big congrats to aliettedb, who just sold a story to Realms of Fantasy!

Made it up to page 12 yesterday, so not a very good production day. I spent time doing some reading up on the Mexican-American war and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. I also got back the final edits on the rewrite for Paradox from aliettedb and all looks good on that front. I'll wait to print it out until the end of the month, so I can go over it one last time after having had some time away from it. I've already made a start on today's work, so I'm late posting progress (almost forgot to do it!:)).

Finally did the bits of the rewrite I was putting off doing in "The Place That Makes You Happiest" and sent it off for an opinion. Today I'll be working on another rewrite, which will involve retyping it (I think I skipped this step of my editing process with this story so I'm going to do it now) then have some minor points to think about and address. This will take a couple days.

Took the kids out to Chuck E. Cheese for dinner last night since Jeff had a business dinner to attend, and we had lots of fun. It's definitely not the cool experience I remember from my own childhood, but then we always went to Showbiz, which had better games and animatronics. And skiball used to give you the best number of tickets, but now it just sucks. Next time I'll unload ten bucks worth of tokens into the dumb bouncy ball game that seems to give the most tickets of any game (sometimes as much as 50 a ball) then maybe the kids can get better stuff than awful fake jewelry and  plastic trinkets that fall apart as soon as you play with them for the first time. But yeah, we still had fun.