In process: February 2017

1st draft

I started the month with maybe 2000 words of the haunted house novel, which is more for sketching and experiments right now.

Not sure if it’s really first drafts (I’m calling this the third actually), but I also spent a good deal of time writing in-fill content for WWS.

Editing

“Top of the Stairs”. Implemented OWW commentary. I learned something here about marking my POV, which I did very badly in the first-subbed draft.
“Wind/Water/Salt”. Posted chapter 3 to OWW. Implemented some (but not all) Chapter 1 OWW commentary.
Working on Chapter 4, I realized something important about chapter 1. I’m now thinking, leaving old chapters on OWW in the Library Shelves section, well, Ch1 will be so different by the time my draft is finished, it’s not like anyone could read it through and get the full effect anyway.

Connecting

Critted 7

Got back 5

Circulating
1

Knitting
Ann Boleyn (1998). Started the month with the second sleeve maybe 25% done. Did a massive push over the Family Day weekend, and that sleeve is finished. I’m trying to plan a way to finish this before… October?

Okracoke cardigan (Shirley Paden). Ignored.

Shorts (from Knitting Lingerie Style by Joan McGowan-Michael). Finished.

Lace cuffs. Finished, but not before the second one suffered lace collapse and I had to start over. Because I’m too cool to use lifelines.

Sheer Beauty (Knit, Swirl). This turned out to be a great thing to work on in the car. I’ve done the first five bands.

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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