In Process, June 2019

Wind/Water/Salt
Chapter 17: Fairfax needed to be a harsher individual. Or at least he needed to project as much.This chapter is so close to being finished!
Chapter 18: This was in the wrong place, not lost! It had no point! I started over and wrote it fresh. I think it’s more efficient this way. I read the old one, and there were a couple of ideas I could keep, but…
Chapter 19: Started marking it up, thought I lost it, found it again…
Chapter 20: Did one pass through this one.

Jane Ann McLachlan is doing a series of challenges for June. I tried to keep up, using them to stay engaged with WWS, but I missed/skipped 2 because I’m a little bit in love with my intro and then fell off the wagon completely.

Persephone
The plot is still the weakest part. I have an ending, I have a beginning, but I have no real antagonist. Lindsay has more backstory now. Maybe I should have done more of that JAM stuff with this story rather than WWS, but I wanted to keep WWS moving forward, so I don’t regret the choice. I could do it all again later…

Connecting
Critted 6
Got back 1

Subs

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Knitting
FI Corset belt. Started month half done. Didn’t work on it because it’s not portable.
Midsummer Aran (IK Summer 2013). Started the month with 10” of body. Worked on this a lot while watching “Stranger things”. My goal was to be caught up by the time Season 3 started so I could be part of the zeitgeist for a change. Oh, and to finish a sweater at some point. The body is now done to the armholes and I have a whole sleeve and started the second, and two episodes left of Stranger Things season 2.
Gold Digger (new directions in sock knitting). Started the month with six inches of the first sock. Now I’ve got three inches of the second.

Moraine

So a couple of days I thought I was done with this short story, and I wrote the last line of the story. I even dated it (that's how I can tell it's over). It was a little long, at 6600 words (I was aiming for 5000). But then I was walking to work, and I thought, "My, that was a lame ending. My endings are all crap." So yesterday morning, I scribbled out the date and wrote a bit more. And this morning I wrote a bit more again, and I dated it and called it done. And still, that ending seemed lame. So a few minutes later, in the last paragraph, I scratched out "the Oak Ridges Moraine" and wrote in "that stupid moraine". Much better. Now I can move on. But in the meantime, I was doing a little research about the Moraine, and I discovered that EGTourGuide lives on it. Only by one or two hundred feet, but I thought it was funny. Good for you, EGTourGuide, with all those excellent plants growing on that substandard soil, where in the olden days (you kno...

In progress: August 2024

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51: Still n eed to take up comments and revise. Persephone (probably not its real name): Continued to think thoughts. Short Stories: After posting that short story from last month onto the workshop, I picked one of those short stories I'd started and forced a plot onto it. Critted 5 Got back 4 Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 0 Knitting Cathar (self). Started month with two inches done above the armholes. Listening to audiobooks, I finished the fair isle portion, cut the steeks, and set up and knit the neckline. Just the endless finishing now. Blushing Cloud (Knitty S/S24). Started the month with (still) three inches of back done. Socks take priority. Elbrus socks (Knitty first fall 2024). Finished. Elbrus socks II . Started the first. Pole shorts (Joan McGowan-Michael). I knitted these several years ago, but the...

What I read: September 2025

LHC #295: "The Last to Leave the Room" by Caitlin Starling. Audiobook. Workplace horror? Loved it. "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Hard copy, for office Data Ethics book club. The stories about Sheryl Sandberg really made me like my boss better. LHC #296: "The Fated Sky" by Mary Robinette Kowal. Hard copy. This got moved up the list because Ed had read book 1 in the series and got the rest out of the library. Loved it. He's got the next one in the series upstairs, I suppose I'll read it when he's done. LHC #297: "Bluegrass: A History" by Neil V. Rosenberg. Hard copy. No idea why it was on my list, I don't care that much about bluegrass. Nevertheless, the second half was interesting. I guess the first half was necessary, as it described in great length the way people came and went in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys band, and also how technology and social pressures affect how music is made and performed. LHC #298: ...

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