The newly-titled "The Shepherds of M15" is formatted and ready to go. Word says it's 15,877 words. Double-spaced in Courier 10 point, it comes out at 63 pages. Sometime this week it shall be printed out via the help of my mother and her good office laser printer, and then it's 8 first class stamps each way to/from Hoboken NJ.

I got a paper copy of Analog yesterday at the bookstore. These people need me. I can do this.

I've been printing out the ideas from my Projects files and now I am contemplating which to do first. I have an idea for a sort of day-in-the-life story for the year 2020, it might make a good short short for me (i.e. max. 7,000 words). Then there's the story about Copernicus and how AIs think of the human concept of love. Actually all of them are good ideas. It's like Christmas morning as a kid, you don't know which to play with first. I want to do at least one more story to get circulating before the start of school.

Found a discussion board attached to the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction which apparently has a lot of writer types on it. Quite nice. Someone was asking about starting a critique group with a Yahoo group, to which I replied saying I'd be interested. Might find some compatriots there.

I don't need a significant other so much at the moment as I need peers. Although an SO who is also as obsessed about writing science-fiction as myself would be the best of all possible worlds. More and more I find myself hoping that potential SO will be female. "I yam what I yam" as Popeye once said.

What does it matter who it is so long as it's real?

DragonCon approacheth.

I've got 9 days to DragonCon. I wonder if I could do that day-in-the-life story before then.