AFB

You could hardly fail to notice that after a flurry of posts, I haven’t made many recently.

In the _World of Warcraft_, players often signify that they are “AFK”: Away From Keyboard. I have been Away From Blog. This is likely to continue. Progress on the second draft of my thesis has been slow. Contributing factors have been:
* a massive procrastination effort on posting to this blog
* discovery of just how compelling _World of Warcraft_ is
* having to negotiate the complexity, subtlety, and maze of alternatives that is _The Chicago Manual of Style_
* having to rewrite my Introduction from scratch

There’s also been quite a lot of activity going on behind the scenes here, in the form of comments and responses to comments on posts, particularly on “End government arts funding now!”:http://benhourigan.com/archives/2005/02/28/end-government-arts-funding/, which started as a throwaway line and turned into a major debate. If you’re not commenting on posts and reading the comments, you’re not getting the most out of this blog: most of the time I can’t help myself from writing massive responses to comments. I am, as a friend of mine recently described another friend, “a comment whore.” If you want some critical attention for your own site, link to me or arrange a trackback or something.

I really need to get some work done, and I’m trying. So in the immediate future, I’ll be concentrating on the thesis, and posting _it_ as the content here. Undoubtedly I won’t be able to stop myself from posting about other things, but I should.

Author: Ben Hourigan

Ben Hourigan is a novelist from Melbourne, Australia. His books Kiss Me, Genius Boy and My Generation’s Lament are Amazon category bestsellers, and are available wherever good books are sold online. Ben also works as an editor, copywriter, and self-publishing consultant at his own firm, Hourigan & Co. For news and book release updates, sign up to his email newsletter.