In process, june 2015

First Draft
“Wind/Water/Salt”. Wrote three missing scenes, adding characters, making tension.
“The Dead belong to Me.” Short story, started.

Editing
“Wind/Water/Salt”. Chapters 39 to end edited. Put in some missing scenes, and added a ton of missing characters. They need to be fleshed out at the beginning too now. How can I have written so much without defining so many characters? Seems like I knew all sorts of stuff that happened, but I didn’t write it down until now. This draft is so much better than the previous. I love editing.

Connecting
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Circulating
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Knitting
“Ceremonial Armour” (Kaffe Fassett, knit from a photo). Did not finish tying in ends. Did not buy beads. Did not crochet edging. Maybe next month.
“St. Anthony’s Ribbon” (self-designed). Got the needle from Rust Damask Jacket so I could do the neck edging. Finished and blocked and put in a box. Not sure I’m happy with the neck, but wearing it might make it better, and I can’t do that right now because it’s summer.
Vinterlys (Norsk Strikkedesign). Did the last 26 rows of the “front” of the sleeve so Rust Damask Jacket could have the needle, then finished the “back” so I can figure out if I have enough on the fronts. Still can’t tell – need to steek and cut and seam first maybe, then pin it all out.
Rust Damask Jacket (Takle & Kolstadt). Started fair isle portion of body.
Honey for the Bee. Socks. Carry-around project. Finished, mostly in the car while driving back and forth from New Hampshire.
Prow pullover (IK Summer 2014). Started, for an easy project; did about 2 inches.

Finished sewing a dress. Started a tunic, learned to make bias tape.

Best TW feedback ever

Over at the dayjob, SMEs are feverishly trying to get documents back to me all marked up, in preparation for the release that's supposed to happen the week I'm back from VP. Today's best comment: Unfortunately not true. SMEs, they're so cute.

What I read: January 2024

"Morgan is my name" by Sophie Keech. Office book club selection. It gets exhausting to read about plucky young heroines who are terrible at needlework all the time. I should probably read some Jo Walton. I mean, you can be good at needlework and other things too! I didn't find this book very surprising. The first half was kind of boring, but it got better towards the end. LHC #233: "The Shifter" by Janice Hardy. I read her writing advice website regularly, so I thought I should maybe read an actual book to find out if she was worth it. Oh my, the voice of this book grabbed me immediately. The worldbuilding seemed shady but the voice was solid. It wasn't very subtle, but I might not be the target audience. LHC #234: "Ragnarok: The End of the Gods" by A. S. Byatt. At this point with my library account, I'm just guessing. I know there was something by Byatt there? I suspect there was. I did not know what to make of this book. Strange, but it w

What I read: March 2024

LHC #240: "Vita Nostra" by Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko. Translated by Julia Meitov Hersey. All I knew going in was dark academia. This was a neat thing to read after A Deadly Education last month. The students can leave this school at summer and winter break, but maybe they shouldn't. Also, interesting education method, providing Sasha with a CD player and punishing her if she leaves it in the mode where it plays all the tracks in sequence. "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman. When I finished Ragnarok by AS Byatt (last month? January?) I was thinking it might have made more sense if I had any knowledge of the subject matter. The boy had left this lying around, and it was not a tough read. LHC #241: "Science on a mission: How Military funding shaped what we do and don't know about the ocean" by Naomi Oreskes. I deferred this once because it was so long. History of science is challenging for me to read, because of the need to get a grasp on dispr

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