I've been madly composing a 10-week outline, a Web Workshop for Writers. Finding great examples for each topic section has not been easy. I'm also beginning to understand CommunityWare though I can never quite remember where I've posted.

I have been helping editors prepare two of my works for launch: "Moon Swimming" at Ylem and "Gender and the Web: Couched in Ideas" at Perihelion. I've been revising "Gender" after the editor saw it at my worksite. "Moon" had file-name problems. My old Eudora mailer changed all names. Ftp is almost foolproof. When an editor suggests I sent this way, I'm relieved

My creative work: Two people are asking me for essays, both for print. Flash: three people, now. I''ve been undergoing an essay-apprenticeship. I long to get back to my light-water piece, a meditation on instances of light and water interplay, using dynamic html. At this point, I have 7 in the series. I believe, I'll aim for 10. Working on them is very aesthetically rewarding. I bliss out. Of course, the dhtml is not easy for me. And Dreamweaver is sometimes a nightmare. The following names may sound nostalgic, that would be misleading. Perhaps I'll change some of them.

The workshop syllabus is finished, and the announcement has been posted in the conference area. Two people interviewed me this past week, one for a major magazine, the other for an academic paper. I prefer academe, quieter and more accurate. I was able to help someone in France find a programmer in the U.S. for a project, and someone planning a conference in England with references to poetry that includes sound files.

I have been having problems with Fountain Albertas, a piece that The Little Magazine wants to put in a CD anthology of Web works. The work has many Applets and 5 midi files, which I picked up with permission around the web and credited on the source code. Even though the production will be non-profit, I have not been able to research copyrights for old sambas and a few other pieces. I think of these tinkly midi's as quotations, but the music industry is quite strict. I worked on Albertas for over 6 months. I am pushing the magazine to give me more than one copy of the CD.

My creative work: I created another piece in the light-water meditation series It finally dawned on me: the Timeline's significance in Dreamweaver. One can create a long timeline with sequenced and/or overlapped events. Fabulous.

The workshop roster is filled. It's encouraging to know people all over the world want to create web projects! I often meet such skepticism about the web as a medium. Now I am trying to obtain project descriptions and bios from group members to circulate, a way of introducing participants to each other. Most already have web sites; everyone will visit each other soon.

Almost all Fountain Albertas Applets have received publication permission. Today I will work with Jill Burton, who does extended vocal techniques, to create two sound files. I am replacing two questionable midi files. One tango turned out to be by a leading Brazilian romantic duo. A 20th century classical piece is also problematic. The rest are okay. I am beginning to write an article on "Text and Image on the Web" for the Ylem newsletter. Deadline for preliminary progress check is March 1. I'll probably compose this on an html editor. Isn't that weird?

My creative work: I added another page called "Mercury/Macadam" to the Light-Water series. I am playing with Timelines and the ability to switch images. The order in layers determines whether an image goes under or over the text. I may change something 50 times, searching for the best position, the best effect. Do I go over or under the text and where do I stop? Amazing how engrossing it can be. I think this spatial maneuvering is good for thinking, it's cognitively satisfying.

The trAce online Writers' Workshop begins Thursday. Participants are sending me their project description and a short bio, which I'll circulate among members. Exciting. Postings at my conference seem lively and intelligent, but people still have trouble finding me. On Wednesday, I had my first Moo experience. I was a mermaid named Marvella who drank oyster milk! Most of the time was spent with Lethe who talked about goldfish. I received an invitation to an April symposium at Emerson College, Boston. I bought a CD burner, which I have to figure out how to use. When I buy a piece of equipment, it usually stays in its box for weeks before I open it. I have to get used to it, like easing into cold water!

My creative work: The 700 word essay on "The Meeting of Image and Text" is due in a preliminary form Monday. Real deadline is March 15. I've almost finished another meditation in the Light-Water series. I take pride in not illustrating; yet this one features a photo of a palm frond referred to in the text. The frond image is as much a statement on calligraphy as it is on the metaphoric association described in the text. For example, I mention hair and the image looks hair-like. I love images that proclaim multiple lines of connection with the text—in this case, subordinate from one perspective but from another, superior. Today I found a misspelled word in a graphic. Russling versus rustling. Now that I wrote all this, perhaps I'll use the word calligraphy in the piece.