No story this week, unless you feel the urge. This exercise is going to be a smidge different.
1) Use the questions from the tips and critique one of your fics, making an outline. See if your story is as coherent as you thought. You can send us the critique if you want too, or keep it all to yourself. Use one of your previous exercises, or use another fic. Other genres will work for this as well, or you can stick to Harry Potter.
2) Pick one of my stories and do the same. I chose me because my feelings won't get in the way of this and the odds are very good I won't get to do this myself for a bit. You can choose one of the exercises, or go to http://wolfiesden.50megs.com and choose any of my stories there. I write under Wolfie and I have stories in every genre. For those interested in fantasy, feel free to slaughter The Immortals.
If any other authors onlist wish to volunteer for "slaughter duty", as I'm jokingly calling section two, please tell everyone what is fair game and DO NOT TAKE IT PERSONALLY! This is key. It's a critique. Critiquers, same goes for you. Not that there has been any issues that I've noted on this list, do not take this issue to make any attacks on any of the volunteering authors.
Have fun, relax, and let's see if this exercise helps us begin honing and tightening our stories. We've worked on our characters; it's time to flip over the coin.