In process: February 2022

Wind/Water/Salt

Chapters 38: Took up comments.

Chapters 39-51: Still need to take up comments and revise.

Persephone (probably not its real name): Went back to the start to fill in rather a lot of missing scenes. Not sure what the point to them is, but some of the information is important. This section of the novel needs another layer of something going on rather than just the obvious. I'll keep working until I figure out what that is, I guess.

I also seem to have gotten to the limit of what Google Docs can do as a single file, so I broke it into 4, and it's much more searchable now.

Short Stories: Found a market for another one, so I posted it as-is to the OWW for commentary.

Critted 8 Got back 6

Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 0

Knitting

Striped long-sleeved t-shirt (self). Started the month about four inches below the armholes on the body (knit top-down). It's really boring, so I just work on it while watching TV. That netted me about 4 inches.
Tay Tartan cardigan (Martin Storey). The "10 danglers per day" strategy, while I don't do it every day, actually works. I think there are only about 500 danglers actually. But the danglers on one front are done now! So is one pattern repeat on the body (knit in the round contrary to the instructions).
Extra Whip socks (Coffeehouse knits). Started the month with one sock barely started. The cuff, heel, and gusset are done now.

Queen's Gambit skirt: Picked buttons and started buttonholes.

Best TW feedback ever

Over at the dayjob, SMEs are feverishly trying to get documents back to me all marked up, in preparation for the release that's supposed to happen the week I'm back from VP. Today's best comment: Unfortunately not true. SMEs, they're so cute.

What I read: January 2024

"Morgan is my name" by Sophie Keech. Office book club selection. It gets exhausting to read about plucky young heroines who are terrible at needlework all the time. I should probably read some Jo Walton. I mean, you can be good at needlework and other things too! I didn't find this book very surprising. The first half was kind of boring, but it got better towards the end. LHC #233: "The Shifter" by Janice Hardy. I read her writing advice website regularly, so I thought I should maybe read an actual book to find out if she was worth it. Oh my, the voice of this book grabbed me immediately. The worldbuilding seemed shady but the voice was solid. It wasn't very subtle, but I might not be the target audience. LHC #234: "Ragnarok: The End of the Gods" by A. S. Byatt. At this point with my library account, I'm just guessing. I know there was something by Byatt there? I suspect there was. I did not know what to make of this book. Strange, but it w

What I read: March 2024

LHC #240: "Vita Nostra" by Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko. Translated by Julia Meitov Hersey. All I knew going in was dark academia. This was a neat thing to read after A Deadly Education last month. The students can leave this school at summer and winter break, but maybe they shouldn't. Also, interesting education method, providing Sasha with a CD player and punishing her if she leaves it in the mode where it plays all the tracks in sequence. "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman. When I finished Ragnarok by AS Byatt (last month? January?) I was thinking it might have made more sense if I had any knowledge of the subject matter. The boy had left this lying around, and it was not a tough read. LHC #241: "Science on a mission: How Military funding shaped what we do and don't know about the ocean" by Naomi Oreskes. I deferred this once because it was so long. History of science is challenging for me to read, because of the need to get a grasp on dispr

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