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No point at all in this for the rest of this week. I'll pick up when the effects of last night and today are all settled down.

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.

Day #1 of my effort to track weblog reading and my writing, with some comments on how I feel about (some of) the weblogs I look at.

Blogs:

Atrios, for a quick news check. Likely to stay in my RSS feed list because, first of all, Duncan Black is a master of the short entry and doesn't take much time and, second, he's often got the best link to news I do want in an election season.

Sean T. Collins: One of the weblogs that routinely leaves me feeling happier than when I started, and not just because he likes what I write. He's Ground Zero for my feeding of my interest in the world of horror, and throws in good comics rambling.

Crooked Timber: Not covering much of interest to me right now, but it's a window on the world very different than mine that sometimes teaches me a lot. At the moment, though, I'm discombobulated by a lot of academicians' reactions to the question of John Yoo's standing at UC Berkeley (of which a separate post sometime). Skimming via RSS feed and a check to see if anything intrested has broken out in the comments. It hasn't.

Obsidian Wings. I really should go to RSS only, ignoring everything but whatever Hilzoy and Katherine write and some of what Publius writes. The comment section has become largely contemptible, along with the other folks with posting privileges.

Balloon Juice. Banana Shoulders. Daring Fireball. Groklaw. Lust for Flowers. News From Me. Progressive Ruin. Savage Critic. Sideshow. Slacktivist. Unfogged. Unqualified Offerings. Various places for news about Making Light.

Story:

No writing of actual draft yet, but I'm poking at some possible scenes for "Noise" in my head, and re-reading M.R. James for ambience.

Also, seeing about a new regularly scheduled online gaming group.

Sometimes it takes a little public self-humiliation.

This next week I'm going to keep track of just what blogs I read, and just what I get written in the way of fiction and gaming. I hope to goad myself to reduce the one and increase the other.