It sounds so easy. Roll a sheet of clay and make a thing.
Well, obviously I was missing something. I was using our recycled clay that I wedged for a solid 5 minutes, and first formed it into a somewhat even log. Then I took a heavy rolling pin to flatten it on some newspaper. Bad idea - it stuck. Not discouraged, I peeled the sticky remains off the soggy paper, re-wedged, it and tried rolling it on the linoleum table tops. Bad idea - it stuck. Thinking it must be too wet, I let sit for 10 minutes, wedged another 5 minutes on the plaster wedging table and decided to use our slab rolling table. I rolled out a nice slab, and moved it to a wooden bat to begin cutting it. As soon as I used the needle tool to cut, it began to crumble and crack. When I went to lift the clay up off of the bat after cutting.... you guessed it. It stuck. Not only was the clay acting too wet, and dry and crumbly at the same time, I had lost all interest in making slab work any time soon.
I later read that you have to wait until the slab is leather hard to begin working with it. Duh. 
Sometimes error trial and error is the only way my stubborn mind works. Simple things are easy to miss.
I still really want to try making some slab projects, as I have a cool idea in mind for a fish-serving platter and some butter dishes...