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Wind/Water/Salt Chapter 17: Fairfax needed to be a harsher individual. Or at least he needed to project as much.This chapter is so close to being finished! Chapter 18: This was in the wrong place, not lost! It had no point! I started over and wrote it fresh. I think it’s more efficient this way. I read the old one, and there were a couple of ideas I could keep, but… Chapter 19: Started marking it up, thought I lost it, found it again… Chapter 20: Did one pass through this one. Jane Ann McLachlan is doing a series of challenges for June. I tried   to keep up, using them to stay engaged with WWS, but I missed/skipped 2 because I’m a little bit in love with my intro and then fell off the wagon completely.  Persephone The plot is still the weakest part. I have an ending, I have a beginning, but I have no real antagonist. Lindsay has more backstory now. Maybe I should have done more of that JAM stuff with this story rather than WWS, but I wanted to keep WWS moving

LHC #40: “The Warmth of other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson. Once again I have no clue why I requested this. I so wish the library holds page had a notes field! It’s about blacks fleeing Jim Crow South in the period between 1917 and the 1970’s, and really I had no idea. This book left me feeling dirty. It’s a bit repetitive but more within sections than across them, mostly because it switches between three main stories and spends too much time recapping what’s gone before, kind of a written equivalent of those A&E true-crime shows that recap everything that happened before the station break before progressing a little farther and cutting to another commercial.  Towards the end, I became fascinated by what I imagine of IW’s process writing this. Her three main subject migrants died 6-12 years before the book was published, so she must have spent just a ridiculous amount of time massaging this content into the shape it appears in here. That must have been brutal. But you have to