Tonight is my peer group review night via zoom-a-palooza. I’m still working on reviewing the last few pages of one of their stories. Something has been bugging me throughout the months that I’ve been reviewing their submissions. I don’t know what it’s called, I’ve even tried googling it but have had no success. So I’m going to call it “shield-breaking”. In it, they have a character do something at the exact moment when that something is needed. It’s kind of like pulling a lucky rabbit’s foot out the moment they step up to a poker table with there being no mention of said rabbit’s foot earlier.

It reminds me of a childhood game I’m sure we all played at some point when we were MUCH younger.

Kid 1 points a finger gun at kid 2: I shoot you.
Kid 2: I pull out my imaginary shield and block it.
Kid 1: I pull out my imaginary shield-breaker and break your shield.
Kid 2: I pull out my imaginary shield-shield-breaker and break your shield-breaker.

That is no way to run a story. You put things on the fireplace mantel for a reason. Is it that hard to grasp? It’s there to collect dust.

😛

I need to get back to finishing this or I might have to pull a miracle out of my *EPAA to get my review done.

*(Ever Prepared Airborne Ass)

EPAA was a phrase I came up with and used back in the 82nd airborne every time some idiot occifer or dill sargento said, “Okay, pull out your *blah*”. All of us enlisted would look at each other with bewilderment as none of us were told to pack it. I would mumble to myself, “If I only had used my lucky rabbit’s foot then I wouldn’t be in this mess right now.”

Tootles all

🙂