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 Probably the spreadsheet was out of date.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.

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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