In Process, June 2019

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 forward, so I don’t regret the choice. I could do it all again later…

Connecting
Critted 6
Got back 1

Subs

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Knitting
FI Corset belt. Started month half done. Didn’t work on it because it’s not portable.
Midsummer Aran (IK Summer 2013). Started the month with 10” of body. Worked on this a lot while watching “Stranger things”. My goal was to be caught up by the time Season 3 started so I could be part of the zeitgeist for a change. Oh, and to finish a sweater at some point. The body is now done to the armholes and I have a whole sleeve and started the second, and two episodes left of Stranger Things season 2.
Gold Digger (new directions in sock knitting). Started the month with six inches of the first sock. Now I’ve got three inches of the second.

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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