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In process: November 2021

Box of unfinished socks

 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): If, as I wrote about last month, it's got the beats of a romance novel, I need those other two sex scenes.   
Short Stories: Finished and posted that story I wanted to get on the 'shop. I'd read an article about fairytales and AITAs, and wrote an AITA of the MC of another story. Then I told a writer friend about it, and she suggested I make the story a series of dueling AITAs. I blew the idea off at the time, but then I thought about it, and I liked it, so I did it. 
Critted 9 Got back 4 
Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 0

Knitting
  • Anna Maria (Faroe Island Knits). Second sleeve: started the colorwork. 
  • Knitloops (Knitty SS2021). Finished the fourth, fifth, and sixth socks, started the seventh. 
  • Striped long-sleeved t-shirt (self).  Had a couple of inches. Still do!
Sewed a couple more seams on the Queen's Gambit skirt. I think the front pleat is too narrow. 

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