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Wind/Water/Salt Chapter 21:   I read some of the comments on Chapter 20, and tried to use that here.   Chapter 22: Did some drafts, made some changes based on reading chapter 24… Chapter 23: At this point things fall apart. I realized there is absolutely no thread of the goal of the bad guy in this novel, and started just making notes and thinking about going back to the beginning and starting over. So I might actually do that – go through a couple of chapters per month and try to make the first half of this project a little more cohesive. Chapter 24: I did manage to read this and made some markups.  Navigationally, I’ve been really enjoying what I can do with Persephone, so I went back and renamed all my chapters with POV character and a bit of what happens so I can find things faster. I’m also considering moving it to Google Docs. Persephone (probably not its real name) Last month ended with me discovering a horrible, horrible thing that one of my character...

“Getting Off Right Safety Manual” by Harm Reduction.org. Research for Persephone. This document had a great tone, even if Ed disagreed with some of the content.  LHC #59: “Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand” by Samuel R. Delany. This one must be meant to improve me. I feel like too many of the books on my list lately have been someone else’s taste, which is not quite the same as my own. It also seems so skew very male, which seems odd. This book went way better for me when I sat down and just punched through. There’s a fantastic scene towards the end where they’re having a dinner party and the guests of honor have a conversation amongst themselves about what barbarians their hosts are that the hosts just do not understand even a little bit even though the POV character is an expert in etiquette. Worth the read though I’m a little tired of stories about gender identities. “Asymmetry” by Lisa Halliday. My sister asked for it for Christmas. A light palette cleanser, I tho...