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In Process: February 2021


 Wind/Water/Salt 

  • Chapters 29-44: Need to take up comments and revise.  
  • Chapter 45-46: Finished and posted. 45 wasn't in really bad shape, but one day I added 900 words to 46 after deleting a large chunk, because it was nonsense. I had glossed over the capturing of Susannah completely. 
  • Chapter 47-50: Read and revised. 
Persephone (probably not its real name): I was reading that book about the Panama canal, as research for Vinterlys, when I realized how this ends. Dark. 
Short Stories:  I started the month with a little of list of places that would be open for small periods because I need to get more serious about this, and I need to finish short things because I can't finish WWS because it's too damn big. And I need to prove to myself that I am serious. 
I started editing two stories because I finished about one last year and that's pathetic. 
I sent something from the back catalog for the first deadline because I couldn't whip the other thing into shape so fast. I'd written it back in September and then only thought about it in hagiographic terms since, so of course it was not polished. It was a first draft. Maybe I should have tried to whip it into shape, but there are too many excuses lying around and I spent that time finishing a WWS chapter instead. So, at least I finished something, I guess? Wrong thing, but whatever. 

The next deadline involved a different piece, which I had been picking away at for the last couple of months. I managed to finish it, I guess, and send it off, because I'm trying to treat this like a job. I'm sure it's awful. 
Critted 12 Got back 9
Submissions 1 Out there 2 Rejects 0

Knitting
  • Tee (me). Finished. 
  • Never Stressed Schweater (me).  Finished.  
  • Practice hoodie (me). Started the ribbing for the back mostly because I didn't feel like finishing the tee. I wound up finishing it too, because chunky yarn goes by fast. Finished. 
  • Penzance socks (me). These socks started as sweatpants, but I'm not incredibly happy with the butt on them and Cascade 220 is kind of harsh on my inner thighs, so I never wrote the pattern up. Did the cuff of the first sock. 

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