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In process -- March 2020

Wind/Water/Salt
Chapter 21-22: edited based on OWW feedback. 
Chapter 23: Posted  
Chapter 24: Fixed a huge continuity error; refined the motivations of the three characters that are in this chapter (Preston, Metatron, and Sumiel).
Chapter 25: Read it, decided it was not necessary, deleted it.
Chapter 26: (I'm keeping the numbering system going forward because I added a chapter 13.1 last month, and it's just easier to keep track of this way.) Read.

I also went through my notes and worked on my character lists and descriptions, which many reviewers have said were lacking. This does not seem to have made people like chapter 23 but whatever. It's useful for me. 

Persephone (probably not its real name) 
Started the month with 82,000 words. I mentioned last month, this is hard to work on with a pandemic going on. I got over that by writing how my pandemic learns from that one and is different.
I haven't really gotten very far with this, but it's fixable.

Short Story
I forgot to mention last month I had pulled out one and edited the hell out of it. This month I finished it, I guess. If one can ever really finish anything. 

I was having a really depressed day -- I'd just read some crits, and gotten some rejections, and the job search is not going magically -- and I gave myself permission to just write some short story notes stuff. Lo and behold that helped me fix Chapter 24 of WWS. Weird. 

Connecting
Critted 7
Got back 4


Subs
2! 
Knitting
FI Corset belt. Finished. 
Sunny skies of winter (KP 2015 FI)Started month on the second sleeve. Now I'm on the cuff of that sleeve. 
Candlemas by Jean Moss. Started month with about 5 inches of back. Finished the back, started the front. 
Soxx #9 For me, to use up some of these cones of yarn lying around. I used two cones.
Chasing Snakes socks. For me. Half of cuff of first one.

I also worked on my sashiko sampler and cut out a tunic.

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