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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
2
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.
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