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Wind/Water/Salt Chapter 19: Almost done?  Chapter 20: I started this month not even sure I need this chapter, and then found a point to it… Chapter 21: This is one that massively benefited from research. Persephone Did 27 days worth of that Jane Ann McLachlan stuff. This was insanely useful to me, and totally shaped the story. I feel like I could write it now, but I don’t know if I should. Do I really need another completed first draft lying around?  Connecting Critted  9 Got back 8 Subs --- Knitting FI Corset belt. Started month half done. I did some rows, and it’s still half done. If this is going to get finished, maybe I will not start something else until it or all the socks are done.  Sunny skies of winter (KP 2015 FI) Started the month almost done with the fair isle portion, getting ready to do the long boring expanse. I’m still on the long boring expanse, and finished a cone of yarn. My sister came up with the more...

“The Bloody Chamber” by Angela Carter. Got it for Christmas. As a small, light collection of short stories, this was a perfect thing to carry on the bus. Also, as non-research, I didn’t have to take notes.  LHC #50: “Lovecraft Country” by Matt Ruff. I was attracted by the idea of Lovecraft with the opposite of his horrific racism. The first chapter seemed like just a list of SF authors, but after that the story settled and was really readable.  LHC #51: “The Refrigerator Monologues” by Catherynne M. Valente. About 90 pages into this, I was thinking I had missed something and was going to have to go back and read it again when I finished, just so I understood who was who. But then I realized that wasn’t the point, it didn’t matter who all the stupid superheroes were and who the archvillains were, they were never going to win or be vanquished. Or if they were, it didn’t matter. The girls were already dead.  LHC #52: “Bad Paper: Chasing debt from Wall Street ...

Wind/Water/Salt Chapter 18: Finished and posted. A consistent comment about the chapters I post is there’s not a lot of tension. So I tried to make some forward-moving tension here. Let’s see how it works!  I think in my first draft I did a pretty good job roughing in the plot, but there’s a ton of details that are missing. I sort of feel like I’ve gone about this edit the wrong way. Instead of trying to polish each chapter, I could have done a pass all the way through with background characters, and another with I don’t know what. Okay, that wouldn’t work, I need to just do it the way I am. And in fact, now is the time for me to be introducing all those secondary characters, because Fairfax didn’t know them at the start and only is getting to know them now, and Preston and Abigail weren’t in town until now. The second third of the story really moves the story into town and opens up the characters to their greater inspection, so this is when I needed that realization anyway...