Re: round Robin pt2
Kill the crew? Not necessarily.
Rush them thru work trying to get as much done cosmetically to get it? ABSOLUTELY.
They had a problem recently up here with contractors working on our bridges across the river. Like I hinted at in the story, if the work got done ahead of schedule, a big fat bonus was going to be awarded to the contracting company. Unfortunately, that meant that often-times shabby work was being done, or under unsafe environments.
Sorry I didn't come up to par with ya on this one, though. As I stated so long ago, the pure joy of RRobin storytelling is soon, you're off in another tangent. It can be a real blessing to us writers to have to constantly strive for that before-not-thought-about part of the story.
To me, what made that very apparant was when Derm (Ziggy) brought in Ireland to the 1st Round Robin. I was going, "Holy cow! I know NEXT TO NOTHING about that place!" Suddenly, I was researching everything from the lay of the land, to the political sections, to the Garda (police), laws, and yes, accents, and how best to write them.
I think we Americans get very weird sometimes about accents, and everyone ends up sounding like a bad pirate or something! LOL!
Matt