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In Process - January 2020

Wind/Water/Salt
Chapter 21:  Posted
Chapter 22: This chapter was finishable, so I did, and it's posted too. 
Chapter 13.1: I wrote half a chapter here, maybe
Chapter 13.2: This was why I had to write 13.1, actually. I moved half of chapter 40 (!) to here because the tension it adds is way more useful early in the story, and to make that work I had to alter a whole bunch of other stuff.  
Chapter 23: 
Chapter 24: I did manage to read this and made some markups. 

During the process of relabeling all the chapters, I realized the first half of chapter 40 needed to be somewhere around Chapter 12, which meant I had to add some time and figure out what my various characters are really up to in the background (when they're not on the stage). This reinforces the idea that I should go back to the beginning and redo those introductory 20 chapters while I continue to push to the end. 


Persephone (probably not its real name) 
Started the month with maybe 71,000 words. Now it's 79,000

Have I ever mentioned here that I love filing? I spent some time with my piles of notes, moving them around, because I have an antagonist that I need a through-line for.

Connecting
Critted  10
Got back 10


Subs
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Knitting
FI Corset belt. Started month half done. Did at least 10 rows. It would be so cool if I finished this in February. 
Sunny skies of winter (KP 2015 FI) Started the month maybe 10 rows from the bottom ribbing. Finished the ribbing and discovered that in the hundreds (!) of knitting needles I have, I do not have a set of US3 DPNs. So I started the first sleeve but knitted no rows. 
Pirate socks: Done.
Candlemas by Jean Moss. Started the month with an inch of back done. Carried it around a bit. It's pretty easy and portable right now, but that won't last. 


The office roof is still leaking, so I didn't work on the fall dress.

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