Dear Dorothy

OK, I see. Part of the problem with Luci is lack of backstory. (Why do I always have an easy time with backstory for the boys? Why are the girls always such a damn pain in my ass?).

Right. Luci. Backstory. Gat it.

Thanks (and why did you wait until the middle of a sea shanty to tell me that, anyway? That was downright weird.),

-WL

Dear Dorothy

You bitch.

You could have told me this thing about Luci months ago and saved me hours and days and weeks of staring at that blasted chapter - the one that goes nowhere, since (duh) it's supposed to stay right where it is - wondering what the bloody, blasted hell to do with it.

Do you really need to keep this shit to yourself for quite so long?

Really. Quite. Pissy.
-WL

Dear Dorothy

I'm very worried about the info dump in the second half of the Prologue.

Really.

I'm starting to feel like I'm trying to cram a mountain of information into a molehill. Like I'm trying to tell the whole damn story in the space of 500 words. Which, of course, ain't even gonna happen.

Is it necessary to the tale?

Well, of course, it's "necessary". I'm just not sure it's necessary right exactly there.

Shit. I don't know what to do.

'Fraid of Failing,
-WL

To the Makers of the Sample Prenatal Vitamins

You gave samples to my doctor to give to me in the hope - I assume - that I would buy your product. I thank you for this, since prenatal vitamins, even the Walmart brand, are expensive.

However, you have a problem with your packaging.

Yes, I would be referring to that handy-dandy, child-proof blister-pack junk you have sealed each and every pill into.

I'm busy. I have a job. I have an hour's commute to the job. I have a four-year-old. I have a house. I have piles upon piles of laundy. My kitchen is a wreck.

In other words, I do not have time to go find a pair of scissors or The Husband every time I remember to take one of your pills. And it seems to me that it rather defeats the purpose of the pills to make them so inaccessible. I mean, I'm doing really well when I remember to take them at all. Please don't make it so hard on me that the incentive of the pill's freeness is negated.

Thank you,
-Pregnant Writer Lady