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Daily efforts Kept writing that horror novel. I might have 20%. Then I read my original outline and… Jesus, why don’t I read my outlines? There might be something salvageable here, I don’t know. Maybe I’ll start over. Worked more on that short story thing that makes me happy that sits in my email. Happy and despairing, but a little bit happy that it’s there. Accomplishments “Wind/Water/Salt”. Posted chapter 8 to OWW. Connecting Critted   9 Got back 6 Subs sigh. Knitting Ann Boleyn (1998).  Started the month with roughly 100 rows to go on the body.   Did 13 maybe? Vinculum II (for me!). Finished. Celtic Gang Girls of the 70’s (Rowan and me). Ignored.  Arnhild (Elsebeth Lavold: Viking Knits and Ancient Ornaments). I think I will love this sweater. Finished back and front. Started first sleeve. I want it done in March so I can wear it seven times before the weather improves.   Sewed the side seams and sleeves on a dress

Library Hold Challenge #2: “Roses and Rot” Kat Howard. This wound up on my list due to Locus reviews, I’m sure. It’s a Tam Lin story! I quite liked it. Good books make me think about the stories that are wheeling around in my head, and what I can do with them. This one did that. Feels like there’s another writer accomplishment I’ll never have: thanking Neil Gaiman for reading my crappy draft. LHC #3: “The Archived” by Victoria Schwab . The YA version of VE Schwab with whom I’m somewhat in love. “The Killing Moon” by N.K.Jemisin. I found it on the floor in the boy’s room, and it looked good. He wants to do a D&D campaign that uses some elements of the Inheritance Trilogy (which I should start again because I only read book 1, and that was probably the year it came out). It was surprisingly readable. One of the main characters is really prejudiced against some of the others, and that was written really well. She’s a sympathetic character, but she’s got this huge blind...