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: 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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