In Process -- May 2020

Wind/Water/Salt
Chapter 23: based on feedback, most of this chapter got deleted, and the rest is part of Chapter 26 now.
Chapter 25: Last month I deleted it. This month I put back half and rewrote half the dialog so the characters were working at cross-purposes to each other. Then I posted it with Chapter 28, because they go together. Maybe I only need one? And if that's the case, it's this one.
Chapter 27: Finished and posted.
Chapter 28: Finished and posted.
Chapter 29: Edit, edit, edit.
Chapter 30: Edit.
Chapter 31: Edit.

Persephone (probably not its real name)
I spent some time with my timeline and fit the B-plot into the A-plot. It worked better than you'd expect. I added about 4000 words.

Short Story
Wrote a flash for a contest but it came out too long so I think I'll polish it and send it elsewhere.

Connecting
Critted 8
Got back 4

Subs

Knitting
Candlemas by Jean Moss. I started the month on the gussets, wondering if I would have enough yarn. I had enough yarn. Finished.
Soxx #1. Finished. My socks are getting uglier and uglier.
Soxx #24.5 (1). Finished.
Soxx #24.5 (2). One sock finished.

(Explanation) In the book, 24 & 25 go together and between them use two skeins of yarn. I'm taking part of each pattern and using different yarn in each so that's why 24.5.

Open Road (Knitty Winter 2019): Lower front and back done. I added 7" to the bottom because I like things to cover my butt.

I also worked on my sashiko sampler and bought the stuff to sew the neck 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: 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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