In Process -- June 2020

Wind/Water/Salt
Chapter 23 - 28: Need to be taken up.

Chapter 29 - 30: Finished and posted.

Chapter 31 - 32: I combined 32 and 33 into one, removing a pointless stop off to make tea. Almost finished, almost posted.

Made a new Chapter 33 out of part of Chapter 35, originally a Fairfax chapter, but I decided Preston had to do that instead. I deleted all of Chapter 34 but about two paragraphs, and rewrote it to make Chapters 33 and 35 connect together.

Then I recrafted 35; part of it actually made sense when I started and got to delete about half of 36 because I didn't need it anymore. Also read Chapter 37 which looks like at some point in the distant past I combined two chapters together there too, because the POV switched half-way through. I'm sure it's better now.

I'm doing a project management course, and I'm using WWS as the project to manage, so expect this sucker to get finished.

Persephone (probably not its real name)
Last month I made a list of outstanding scenes and started checking them off.

Short Story
There's an item on my Activity Tracker called "Shorts & Mktg". Things came back. I need to get them out again.

Connecting
Critted 8
Got back 5

Subs

Knitting
Soxx #24.5 (2). Finished.
Soxx #3. Finished.
Open Road (Knitty Winter 2019). Finished.
Soxx #12 (2). Finished.

Soxx #24.5 (3). Sock #1 foot.

Aberdeen Agryll (Martin Storey). 6" of body (doing it in the round instead of flat as in pattern)

I also worked on my sashiko sampler and sewed the neck and darts on that tunic.

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: August 2023

"The Absolute Book" by Elizabeth Knox. I got it for Christmas. It was delightful, even if maybe some stuff wasn't explained completely. Or maybe that's part of why it was delightful. "Crucial conversations" By Joseph Grenny and three other old white men. Another office book club selection. The word "candor" comes up a lot. I really resented this book. LHC #220: "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt. There was a girl at my previous company who wanted to have an office book club, and she had this book on her desk for months and months. I can totally understand this. I found portions crazy stressful to read. Like, I would be skipping ahead to see how much more in the section, could I get through it, pacing around, etc. I wanted to know how it ended, sure, but I was having weird stress dreams and stuff. If it wasn't a library book I might not have finished it at all. It was such a relief when Boris showed up again and something happened. I di

In Progress -- July 2023

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51: Still n eed to take up comments and revise. Persephone (probably not its real name): Nothing but thoughts. Short Stories: As I mentioned last month I had a dish-washing epiphany on a story that wasn't going well. I'd already changed the POV character, but I knew that wasn't enough because I had no ending. It has an ending now. Critted 4 Got back 0 I really need to post something new. Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 1 Knitting Tay Tartan cardigan (Martin Storey). Finally finished the danglers and minor seaming and chose buttons, then had to wait to block because the space I normally block in needed to be cleared, and this would be very disruptive to my work, so I waited to block it for the night before I went on vacation. It would appear that the finishing of this sweater took 4 months, which may be a new record. It fits for the most part. Yay! Cathar (self). Started the month just about done with the body edging.

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