Okay, slept in since its Saturday, about to throw in my 500 words, but before that, I wanted to give a sincere and heartfelt thank you to Ian Lamb.  My best writing comes (I feel) when I focus on the reader and really bringing a clean, entertaining, insightful vision to them.  So in essence:  Service to others.  Ian paid me a compliment today on facebook, and that did ME service.  I don’t want to cheapen his words, so I’ll just leave it at:  Reading the first two chapters of Echo Volume 2 got him out of a writing rut.  More than great reviews, I’m incredibly privileged that my writing actually had a personal effect on someone outside of the normal scope of writing.  AND…I’m well aware that my Ego is rolling around like a pig in mud right now, but when I score a triumph, I like to bask in it for five minutes, then move on.  Ian, reading your compliment motivated and terrified me, which I think is a balanced reaction, because it motivated me to apply myself even harder, and it terrified me into working more assiduously, because I don’t want to let you down.  I’m glad that the first two chapters did service to you, but thank YOU, friend, because your compliment makes those long hours of word-wrangling worth it!