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In progress -- May 2018

Daily efforts That horror novel: Maybe 35,000 words? Or is that what I said last month. I set this aside for days and days as I wrote fresh content for WWS. I also added a bit to that huge pile of notes for that vague project I haven’t “started”. And I edited chapter 10 (where that fresh content is) of WWS. Accomplishments The reason these updates come so late  sometimes is because I mean to post something to OWW, and if I can just get it together to do that... but then I don't because I don't really have an editing system . And here we are. No accomplishments for May. June will be better! Connecting Critted 4 Got back 4 Subs I need to work on my subbing system too. Knitting Ann Boleyn (1998).  Started the month with 25 rows left on the body. Now I’m on the edging. I’m pretty excited that I will finish this project someday.   Someday in June. Celtic Gang Girls of the 70’s (Rowan and me). Planned intarsia for back (this took hours!)

What I read -- May 2018

“Timothy and Two Witches” by Margaret Storey. Someone, probably Kelly Link, lamented on Twitter that this is OOP. Toronto has a great kids’ collection, so I went down there to read this one. It was so fun! One of the great things about kids’ fantasy is there isn’t the need to explain how everything works. Sometimes we get a little too overwrought with the logic of our magic systems, etc. I hadn’t ever tried out the Osborne Collection, so that was fun too. There was an exhibit there about Little Red Riding Hood, which is dear to my heart because one of the greatest workshops I ever went to had a juried entry, and I got in based on my LRH film treatment targeting 18-35 yo males. “The Vor Game” by Lois McMaster Bujold. I needed something small to carry on the bus. For some reason this was at my mother’s house, though she wasn’t an SF reader. Maybe it was my stepfather’s? I’ve heard a lot about the Miles Vorkosigan series, and this is one of those so I read it. Miles is a gre