In Process -- November 2019

Wind/Water/Salt

Chapter 20: Finished and posted.

Chapter 21: I’ve done two or three passes on this one, but it’s chapter 22 now so I don’t know how I’m going to get another chapter posted any time soon…

Chapter 22: This chapter had a chunk that I had clearly dropped into it based on an old chapter spreadsheet, but that chunk was in the wrong chapter. Probably the spreadsheet was out of date. I moved it to the right chapter, I think. Some of these pieces I move around maybe should just be deleted. It also belonged before Chapter 21. I’m into the messy middle now!

Persephone

Started NaNoWriMo just to get some stuff put together, it’s a fun way to have momentum etc. Maybe the day before nano started (i.e., Halloween), I realized who the antagonist is, and it’s actually possible to write this now, which is something. It was pretty funny – she’s a character I’d had left in some backstory scenes, no name or anything, and all of a sudden if she’s in the present too so much more makes sense. A little distressing too, though. She motivates my character to do some pretty awful things I didn’t know about before. I have 50,800 words in google docs now typed up and in an order. I don’t know how I will finish the draft without the motivation of NaNoWriMo to push me through…

Connecting

Critted 6
Got back 6

Subs

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Knitting
FI Corset belt. Ignored.
Sunny skies of winter (KP 2015 FI) Started the month on the body increases; did maybe an inch while watching Logan Lucky while I was sick.
Bertha socks (New Directions in Sock Knitting). Finished.
Bertha socks #2: Started because I need three cones to be used up.
I did not finish my Sashiko
In sewing news, I did not work on the dress I started three months ago.

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: August 2023

"The Absolute Book" by Elizabeth Knox. I got it for Christmas. It was delightful, even if maybe some stuff wasn't explained completely. Or maybe that's part of why it was delightful. "Crucial conversations" By Joseph Grenny and three other old white men. Another office book club selection. The word "candor" comes up a lot. I really resented this book. LHC #220: "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt. There was a girl at my previous company who wanted to have an office book club, and she had this book on her desk for months and months. I can totally understand this. I found portions crazy stressful to read. Like, I would be skipping ahead to see how much more in the section, could I get through it, pacing around, etc. I wanted to know how it ended, sure, but I was having weird stress dreams and stuff. If it wasn't a library book I might not have finished it at all. It was such a relief when Boris showed up again and something happened. I di

In Progress -- July 2023

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51: Still n eed to take up comments and revise. Persephone (probably not its real name): Nothing but thoughts. Short Stories: As I mentioned last month I had a dish-washing epiphany on a story that wasn't going well. I'd already changed the POV character, but I knew that wasn't enough because I had no ending. It has an ending now. Critted 4 Got back 0 I really need to post something new. Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 1 Knitting Tay Tartan cardigan (Martin Storey). Finally finished the danglers and minor seaming and chose buttons, then had to wait to block because the space I normally block in needed to be cleared, and this would be very disruptive to my work, so I waited to block it for the night before I went on vacation. It would appear that the finishing of this sweater took 4 months, which may be a new record. It fits for the most part. Yay! Cathar (self). Started the month just about done with the body edging.

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