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In process: October 2021

 


Wind/Water/Salt 

  • Chapters 31-51: Need to take up comments and revise. 
  • Synopsis: Maybe I should post it for comments. 
  • Had a glimmering of what to do with Fairfax next. 
Persephone (probably not its real name): I was thinking about my friend's romance novel, where there were some flaws but some things she totally nailed, like the structural expectation of three sex scenes, each with a different emotion going in/out. Then I realized that if this story is a romance novel, then I'd just written the first of those three sex scenes. One of my MCs is ace, so there's not actually sex though.   
Short Stories: In order to have something for other people to crit, I pulled something out of the trunk. Everything always takes longer than I think it will! I didn't get through it. 
Critted 9 Got back 2 
Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 0

Knitting
  • Anna Maria (Faroe Island Knits). Both sleeves were started at the start of the month. Finished the first one. 
  • Knitloops (Knitty SS2021). Started the month with a start on the third sock. Finished this one, started the fourth. 
  • Striped long-sleeved t-shirt (self).  Had a couple of inches. Did nothing. 
Intended to sew a couple of seams on the Queen's Gambit skirt, never got around to it. The day job did suck up a couple of weekends, but that's no excuse? 

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