In process, March 2019

Persephone
I asked Ed about how well GPS works in Iran, and if normal people would have access to that, and he thought yes, so maybe my sections about wandering out into the desert are legit. This led to a discussion of what type of motorcycle Aaron might have. Apparently Kawasaki something (I wrote it down). Details are good! I feel like I’m writing fanfic rather than a novel. This is the Intervention episode. Or it might be the book’s opening scene.

“Wind/Water/Salt”.
Chapter 14: Posted
Chapter 15: Fixed pacing. Defined secondary characters. Close to posting, maybe I'll actually do two next month?

Connecting
Critted 4
Got back 3

Subs

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Knitting
FI Corset belt. Ripped out the 1.5 inches I had and started over, PWYC (or something like it) and less invisible patterning. I will save that pattern for a project where it can be seen! I’m past where I was before and much happier with it now.
Drachen (knitty Fall 2018). Started the month couple of inches past the divide for the front. Now I’m on the back. Haven’t run out of yarn yet!
Boomerang socks (New directions in sock knitting). Finished, did not actually run out of the striped yarn. I had eight feet left.

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.

Moraine

So a couple of days I thought I was done with this short story, and I wrote the last line of the story. I even dated it (that's how I can tell it's over). It was a little long, at 6600 words (I was aiming for 5000). But then I was walking to work, and I thought, "My, that was a lame ending. My endings are all crap." So yesterday morning, I scribbled out the date and wrote a bit more. And this morning I wrote a bit more again, and I dated it and called it done. And still, that ending seemed lame. So a few minutes later, in the last paragraph, I scratched out "the Oak Ridges Moraine" and wrote in "that stupid moraine". Much better. Now I can move on. But in the meantime, I was doing a little research about the Moraine, and I discovered that EGTourGuide lives on it. Only by one or two hundred feet, but I thought it was funny. Good for you, EGTourGuide, with all those excellent plants growing on that substandard soil, where in the olden days (you kno...

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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