In an attempt to pack more into each day, I’ve been getting up between six-thirty and seven this week. This may not sound much to many, but it’s a big deal for me – I normally detest being up before the Sun. I still do, but these extra few hours have allowed me to start work on my Suite101 topic information pages, which I should have finished months ago. Basically, all I have to do is find eight articles in each subtopic (and there are a lot of subtopics) to display in their respective Featured Articles boxes.
This is kind of enjoyable if, like me, you enjoy making lists and classifying things, but it’s not as easy as it might sound. Apart from finding sufficient articles of “quality”, every one of those articles needs to have a “compelling” image bigger than 466 × 347 pixels, and since these are health care topics, I think they should have good references, too. And they shouldn’t be too old, either, though some of my General Medicine topics seem to have been neglected for years. Has there really been nothing to say on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis since 2007? (A better question might be, why does amyotrophic lateral sclerosis have a section all to itself, when the whole of cancer also gets only one section?) I could write some articles myself, I suppose, but that would be self-promotion, which is another no-no.
Elsewhere, I’m continuing with the research for this year’s fiction project, which I plan to finish by the end of January (the research that is, not the project [laughs hysterically at the thought]). Although despite all those extra hours, I haven’t progressed as far as I would’ve liked due to a sudden rush of editing work. Good for the bank balance, but not so good for the WIP.
