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Writing only leads to more writing. (Colette)

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Visitors from 1/30/05:

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Along with making icons, I've also been struggling to clean up the crap in the den and read some of the stacks of mags and comics. I got back to the point I was 2 weeks ago. Yay, me. Okay, it's not much, but I can see my desk again. Didn't get to the comics, but I'll be reading the next batch of them starting tomorrow.

And I finally started trying to come up with coherent notes for Access Denied, which means figuring out what out of the pages and pages of typed and writtne notes (often on the same pages) I want to keep, then figuring out what needs to be added so I'm grounded in the universe and can go back to the writing.

Of course, in 3 weeks, I'll be faced with picking up the Mars books (BP and its as-yet-unnamed sequel) again. And there's always ITB, the spy series I write with some friends and self-publish, to deal with. So, come January, I'll be even busier than I am now. Which is why it was important to get my blogs looking pretty much the way I want and not have to worry about that later.

The last month has been hectic, with AOL putting ads on their members' journals and my moving my remaining AOL journal, a photoblog, to Blogger, along with scores of other AOL journalers who have moved to Blogger. I've been helping them adjust to their new blogging home. What's really sad, though, aside from having cancelled my AOL account (I'm now piggybacking on hubby's) is that the once-vital and active writers boards there are pretty much dead. The dying's been going on for a while now, but this weekend was the pits. Except for3 or 4 actual posts about nothing much, the only action was from a spammer (spammers?) hawking Rolex watches. Very sad state of affairs. When I found those boards, back when the Writers Club was running them, 10 years ago, folks like Patricia Wrede and Steve Perry were having deep discussions about the difference between show and tell (they disagreed) and other nuances of writing. Ah well, there's always rasfc.