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In Process–August 2020

Wind/Water/Salt

Chapter 23 - 24: Took up. 
Chapters 25 - 34: Need to be taken up.  
Chapter 35 - 36: Finished and posted. 
Chapter 37 - 41: Read and revised. 

Persephone (probably not its real name) 

 Wrote part of a back story short story for it. 

Short Story

There's a little list of stories to finish pinned on my wall. I chose one, chose a market, read the story, and decided I could totally take 600 words out of this for it to fit into that market. Then I decided to clarify the setting, and this added 400 words. The main character needed a personality; adding this didn't actually make the thing longer. I looked at the original market again and realized it wanted 500 words less than I was aiming for. So now I'm 1500 over. 

And I wrote a 2000-word thing that I haven't looked at since that I think is awesome, but it might be half-baked, who knows. 

Connecting

Critted 16 (probably more sustainable than last month)
Got back 7 (enough)
 
Subs  0
Out there  0
Rejects  1

Knitting

Aberdeen Argyll (Martin Storey). Started the month with most of the body done. Finished that, and the sleeves. The steeks are cut, I just have to seam and block.  
Neldoreth socks. Finished. 
Masquerade (Louisa Harding). Started all the pieces, because I'm using about 50 shades of tapestry yarn for the contrast color, and I want to manage that the same on all pieces.  

I also worked on my sashiko sampler. 
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