Blogs:
Much the same as yesterday, plus Journalista, Dirk Deppey's amazing M-F roundup of news in the world of comics, graphic design, commercial illustration, animation, etc etc. This is one of my favorite reads each day, rich in links, usually containing some great wry commentary from Dirk, and almost always leading me to something I wouldn't have guessed I'd like to know about.
Stories:
Despite feeling awful, I got a good start on overhauling openings for "Noise" and "The Conservationist"/"Conserved Quantities", and realized that the latter of these can be much shorter than I originally figured without losing its effect. I may be getting the hang of this business of thinking of things that work at less than novel length. Five hundred words or so on each, and I'd like to finish one or the other by the weekend.
