My advice? Stop projecting. If *you* feel blogging interferes with *your* production, ease off or stop. If it has no effect, or if you feel it helps you, keep it up. Because if you stop, I won't have anything to read.

I think posting about the wip, the 70 days thing, and process in general is helping me get going. I like seeing what my friends are up to. I live in a small town with no writers within shouting distance. LJ has been a godsend in that regard.

But I draw the line at reading blogs by writers who believe Hence Me, Therefore Thee.

Posting like a mad poster before I dive into the wip.

Why exactly did Wickham elope with Lydia? This question may have been answered somewhere in Pride & Prejudice, but I don't recall anything offhand. In the televised versions I've seen, I haven't seen it discussed to any great extent. Was it simply because she was a wide-eyed innocent that he could bed for a few days/weeks, then dump? Was it that simple? Was he avenging himself on Lizzie for beginning to favor Darcy--I don't recall the timeline offhand, but I think she mentioned him favorably to Wickham at some point prior, which took him aback.

It's just that he seemed so calculating, so determined to find a rich wife to bail him out. Granted, he had gotten himself in trouble previously as impulsiveness overcame reason--I think he's a decent enough study in run-of-the-mill sociopathy, and extended periods of failure to think past the end of one's nose is a trait of the type. I just don't see any reason for Lydia other than that she was convenient, and maybe that's reason enough. But he shot his wad with the regiment, which had seemed like a decent posting, and there was certainly no inkling that someone with Darcy's wealth would turn up to make things right. Did he need to flee creditors, and take Lydia along because she was there? But she slows him down and attracts all manner of attention.

I just don't get it.

In swivetfeed's blog is a link to a Slate article about why William F. Buckley talked as he did. I read the credits as I usually do, and what name pops out at me but "David Bowie of the University of Central Florida."

I wondered why he hadn't released an album in a while.

My monthly blog post at SFNovelists is up.

I've mentioned SFNovelists before. It's the brainchild of Tobias Buckell, a dandy site which showcases spec fic writers.

Well, it has a blog, and each month around this time (the 28th, but on one or two occasions, the 27th or 29th), I'll be the blog blogger. Yes. It's early, and the coffee is still dripping. Anyway, blog's there. It's about procrastination, a subject about which I know much. Check it out, and look around the site, which is very spiff.

...which means that many of you have seen this posted elsewhere.

SF & F Novelists is the brainchild of Tobias Buckell, and a dandy hub with links to and info about many writers in the genres. Check out the links, the blog, the whole nine yards. Tobias did a wonderful job pulling this together.

Discussed in a neat blog that I think I'll be adding to my favorites list.

I have a MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/specfic

If you wonder why I didn't try for a variation of my name, I did. Many times. I was surprised that specfic worked, but I can live with it.

So stop by! If you have a page, tell me so that when I figure out how to friend folks, I can friend you.