In Process, December 2018

Drafting
Persephone: Researched real estate frauds and pandemics. Another month spent protecting my paracosm. I actually found myself making a list of ways Aaron is a response to him. I found a structure and divided my notes into four piles.

Editing
“Wind/Water/Salt”. made lots of edits to Chapter 13, but never managed to finish it. So close! I took chapters 14 - 16 on vacation with me and this was a good thing because I realized chapter 15 needed to be in the middle of 13, and that made room for a chapter to solve a continuity error for Fairfax. All in all, a productive month.

Took up some of Chapter 3. It was good because I had come up with something for Preston to be doing (as I told the boy, Abigail wants to control her daughter, and she wants her familiar back. Fairfax wants to find a witch so he can get paid and go home to Virginia. Preston has a mill…?)

Connecting
Critted 5
Got back 6

Subs
1

Knitting
Celtic Gang Girls of the 70’s (Rowan and me). Got to “divide for neck” on the front and finished the left shoulder. So, the right shoulder and collar and a lot of finishing to go. I have hopes for January, though!
FI Corset belt. Still 1.5 inches done. Ignored.
Socks. The socks are done. No more socks for a while. Well okay, maybe I’ll do another pair of Sock Band socks because those were awesome, but after that no socks for a while.
Drachen (knitty Fall 2018). I needed something portable, and this fit the bill. I hope I don’t run out of yarn, but if I do, I guess it will just have shorter sleeves. I almost bought different yarn for this project but the woman at the yarn store told me (at great length) that my choice of yarn would produce a project that would be a dog’s breakfast. Yes, she said that. I have about 8 inches.

Finished sewing a skirt.

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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