Feel free to hit me up if you need a sounding board or second pair of eyes. My agenda this week is pretty open.

Vaguely related, have you read Cherryh's short story "The Unshadowed Land"?

I did, several years ago, it's mostly evaporated. Should I reread it?

(Reading Cherryh -- and Bujold, and I'm sure a bunch of other people I just haven't picked up really recently -- makes me despair of ever writing anything. Bah.)

Everyone starts somewhere. (Cherryh? Ohhh, reactions?)