Thanks, Spaw. I knew if anyone would agree with me about the child-bearing thing, it would be you. But I'm surprised to see you advocating church attendance! [just kidding, in case anyone thinks I'm serious!]

Seriously, I think you did a good job of describing HOW TO absorb and deal with the extremes of other writers' suprises-- keep it going in a reasonable sequence even when it goes off and wanders.

I especially like the idea of someone will write a synopsis into their post as part of the story just to get things on track and all of us back to the same church if not the same pew... Joe Offer has OK'd trying a Permathread approach to stories (new ones not existing ones), and would most of you agree that this would be a great way for a permathreads' editor to periodically introduce necessary cleanups?

~Susan