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Let me just say how exhausted and how energized I feel at the same time. This is a place where I feel that the things I care about are also things that other people care about. I think the sense of community that comes from that can do incredibly powerful things. There's that song,

Many drops can turn a mill, singly none, singly none
Many stones can build an arch, singly none singly none

And I think it's easy to fall in this trap of thinking, the only things that I can do are the things that I can do by myself. I'm, like, notoriously bad about being able to ask for help in the first place, and at the same time I'm notoriously bad on not following through on help I volunteered to provide. But I would like to think about what I can do, perhaps in the context of WisCon, perhaps in other contexts.

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I want to come back to that authorial intent panel because there's this dichotomy that comes up that is so interesting to me. It's the things that slip out into your writing when you're not looking.

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I made no attempt to take notes on the "writing the disaster novel" panel, coming in an hour late, but I must mention at least two tidbits:

-- The "fishpocalypse." Overfishing. Rising squid populations in response (this is happening!) A boom in calamari, or squid take over the world?

--"I love New York, but it's going to take a massive diking system to save it. They might be able to preserve part of it as an architectural monument" -- Eleanor Arnason.