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Persephone I had way more Aaron storyline than Lindsay. I went through and wrote a lot of Lindsay in. I’m rewriting scenes over and over now. Turns out giving Lindsay as much backstory as Aaron means she has more frontstory too!  “Wind/Water/Salt” Chapter 16: Posted. Chapter 17: Carried it around on a trip, and that was great. When I leave the house… well, anytime really, there are two things I need to do every day. I do some yoga, and I look at WWS. There’s something really wrong with this chapter, and it took me weeks to figure out what: the POV character (Fairfax) needs to have a reason to show up at Abigail’s house, a goal. Once I started blocking that in, things began to make sense. Gah! Chapter 18: did one pass through, realized it was missing a chapter break, realized there was a chapter missing, went looking for that chapter (because I knew I’d written it), need to figure out where to put it now. Jane Ann McLachlan is doing a series of challenges for ...

“The Grass King’s Concubine” by Kari Sperring. I think I was intimidated by the fatness of this book. I’ve had it around for years, and finally ran out of excuses so picked it up. I didn’t really connect with any of the characters and they sometimes seemed willfully stupid. It also seemed like there were too many boring details and a lot of repetition. Not the book for me?  LHC #36: “Haxan” by Kenneth Mark Hoover. People who read this blog regularly might get the idea (not through anything I’ve said, but perhaps you might intuit) that I care pretty strongly about public libraries. It seems like some government types don’t particularly value them. It’s not all about me, it’s about maintaining everyone’s access to books. Anyway, I currently have 78 books on my inactive holds list (from whence   the Library Hold Challenge books are chosen). I’m reading all the ones that only have one or two copies available next. This one came up first. It was fun! LHC #37: “The War f...