Faint stirring of the writerly muse

Opened up a long-trunked short story file yesterday and did a quick read-through and polish -- you don't want to know how many semicolons there were in the pre-tinkered iteration -- after running across a market notice for which said story might conceivably be a fit. Of course it's a short-window deadline, and of course older me now sees an issue that probably needs more time to fix than the window will allow, but still. Actual writing is actual writing.

In other news, the final death of Yahoo Groups a couple of weeks ago took with it a small writers' mailing list whose ownership I inherited a long while back by being one of the few people involved with sufficient Yahoo neep-skills to actually get into the list management tools. Before the lights went out, one trail of breadcrumbs was laid over to groups.io ... and I laid another by setting up storytellers_research here on Dreamwidth. The community - like the prior list - is designed to help writers by sharing general  expertise as needed for particular projects (i.e. what kind of a sword wound do I need to sideline my protagonist without killing her, what sort of dresses did they wear in 14th-century Grand Fenwick, how can I get someone out of a locked sarcophagus before they run out of air...).  Membership is temporarily moderated (to discourage spammers during the setup phase), and very much not limited to the prior Yahoo folk, so anyone interested is encouraged to head over and come aboard.