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: August 2023

"The Absolute Book" by Elizabeth Knox. I got it for Christmas. It was delightful, even if maybe some stuff wasn't explained completely. Or maybe that's part of why it was delightful. "Crucial conversations" By Joseph Grenny and three other old white men. Another office book club selection. The word "candor" comes up a lot. I really resented this book. LHC #220: "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt. There was a girl at my previous company who wanted to have an office book club, and she had this book on her desk for months and months. I can totally understand this. I found portions crazy stressful to read. Like, I would be skipping ahead to see how much more in the section, could I get through it, pacing around, etc. I wanted to know how it ended, sure, but I was having weird stress dreams and stuff. If it wasn't a library book I might not have finished it at all. It was such a relief when Boris showed up again and something happened. I di

In Progress -- July 2023

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51: Still n eed to take up comments and revise. Persephone (probably not its real name): Nothing but thoughts. Short Stories: As I mentioned last month I had a dish-washing epiphany on a story that wasn't going well. I'd already changed the POV character, but I knew that wasn't enough because I had no ending. It has an ending now. Critted 4 Got back 0 I really need to post something new. Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 1 Knitting Tay Tartan cardigan (Martin Storey). Finally finished the danglers and minor seaming and chose buttons, then had to wait to block because the space I normally block in needed to be cleared, and this would be very disruptive to my work, so I waited to block it for the night before I went on vacation. It would appear that the finishing of this sweater took 4 months, which may be a new record. It fits for the most part. Yay! Cathar (self). Started the month just about done with the body edging.

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