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In Process -- November 2019







Wind/Water/Salt
 
Chapter 20: Finished and posted.

Chapter 21: I’ve done two or three passes on this one, but it’s chapter 22 now so I don’t know how I’m going to get another chapter posted any time soon…

Chapter 22: This chapter had a chunk that I had clearly dropped into it based on an old chapter spreadsheet, but that chunk was in the wrong chapter. Probably the spreadsheet was out of date. I moved it to the right chapter, I think. Some of these pieces I move around maybe should just be deleted. It also belonged before Chapter 21. I’m into the messy middle now!

Persephone

Started NaNoWriMo just to  get some stuff put together, it’s a fun way to have momentum etc. Maybe the day before nano started (i.e., Halloween), I realized who the antagonist is, and it’s actually possible to write this now, which is something. It was pretty funny – she’s a character I’d had left in some backstory scenes, no name or anything, and all of a sudden if she’s in the present too so much more makes sense. A little distressing too, though. She motivates my character to do some pretty awful things I didn’t know about before. I have 50,800 words in google docs now typed up and in an order. I don’t know how I will finish the draft without the motivation of NaNoWriMo to push me through…

Connecting
 
Critted  6
Got back 6

Subs
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Knitting
FI Corset belt. Ignored.
Sunny skies of winter (KP 2015 FI) Started the month on the body increases; did maybe an inch while watching Logan Lucky while I was sick.
Bertha socks (New Directions in Sock Knitting). Finished.
Bertha socks #2: Started because I need three cones to be used up. 
I did not finish my Sashiko
In sewing news, I did not work on the dress I started three months ago.
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