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No progress yesterday, due to making pancakes and taking long parky walks and seeing two different kinds of music (Schubert and Weill and a guy on the ukulele--okay, I guess that's three, but in two concerts). Today: progress!

A hundred pages before Wiscon looks imminent. Hooray! I am making everyone's misconceptions and assumptions even more complicated than they already were, and not bothering about describing places or the weather adequately. That will come later.

I'm still drafting in MS Word, but copying into Scrivener as I go. We'll see how this works out for me. Plausibly, I'll spend some time this week putting the novel I wrote last summer into Scrivener and see if that gives me any ideas or inspiration for revision.

Speaking of Wiscon: it will be awesome. Somehow I am on two panels.
YA: Why Then? Why Now?
Sat, 1:00–2:15 pm, Capitol A
Moderator: Sharyn November. Anastasia Marie Salter, Michael Marc Levy, Gwenda Bond, Alena McNamara
In 1967, The Outsiders was published. The YA genre was quickly off and running. Now, over thirty years later, YA is rapidly expanding again. Both adults and teenagers are reading it, and YA books pop up on every bestseller list. What happened then, and what's happening now that causes YA to grow so wildly?

Facebook and Its Discontents
Sun, 4:00–5:15 pm, Senate B
Moderator: Cat T. Rambo. Kater Cheek, Penny Hill, Sumana Harihareswara, Alena McNamara
Have your friends abandoned their blogs and Live Journals for Facebook? How does writing on our friends' walls differ from commenting on their posts? How do you navigate privacy on a system that forbids anonymity? Is "liking" someones update the same as commenting "This!"



Hopefully, I will not die! (Or say anything terribly stupid.)