In Process -- April 2020

Wind/Water/Salt
Chapter 24: Read again and posted.
Chapter 26: Read and posted (with an explanation of what happened to Chapter 25 which I deleted).
Chapter 27: Read and moved the second half to chapter 29, then expanded the first half so there was some tension (I hope).
Chapter 28: I considered deleting this one too, but the world needs more Abigail. Maybe I'll move it into the Chapter 25 spot?
Worked on my synopsis, which I will need.
Chapter 29-31: Read for new continuity, because I changed some things that had ripple effects.

Persephone (probably not its real name)
I was wandering about outside one day and my B-plot fell onto me, basically. And it's a good B-plot that makes sense I think now. It basically came with locations and a rhythm that meshes well with the A-plot and uses my characters in an interesting way.

Short Story
Notes for two.

Connecting
Critted 8
Got back 8

Subs

Knitting
Sunny skies of winter (KP 2015 FI) Finished cuff of second sleeve. I did not enjoy the finishing on this project.
Candlemas by Jean Moss. Started month with about 3 inches of front. (Back was finished in March.) Did both sleeves, noticed there are gussets (!), didn't run out of yarn yet.
Chasing Snakes socks. (Knitty) Started month with half of top of first sock. Finished. The colors (I used self-striping yarn) match pretty well, but I messed up the chart somewhere and I could never figure out where -- maybe when I ripped out eight rows on the first sock? I don't think anyone else will look closely enough to notice.
Soxx #12. Finished.
Soxx #1: Started.

I also sewed four face masks.

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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