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 Probably the spreadsheet was out of date.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.

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: ...

What I read -- October 2025

"The Moomins and the Great Flood" by Tove Jansson. eBook. I read this because Marissa Lingen loves them. It was fine? This was the first one in the series and the only one available online; maybe the later ones are better. Maybe they're better if you read them as a child. "The Relentless Moon" by Mary Robinette Kowal. Hard copy. Read it because Ed had the whole series out of the library. It took a long time to get going, and sometimes I find MRK exhausting. Her white main characters all seem oddly aware of the Black experience. "The Martian Contingency" by Mary Robinette Kowal. Hard copy. Read it because Ed had the whole series out of the library. I don't often read subsequent books in a series in quick succession, and my reaction to this one is a lot of why: I found Alma's voice too similar to Nicole's -- sure, Nicole obsessed about food much more, but they both went on and on about "must support black guy in management" an...

In progress - January 2026

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51: Nothing Persephone (probably not its real name): NOthing Vinterlys: Worked on Chapter 2 some more. Critted 4 Got back 1 Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 0 Knitting Georgia (Norah Gaughan). Started the month with one sleeve and half a front to go. Finished. Love this sweater. Aberlady (AS Celtic Collection). Did a few rows while listening to podcasts. Summer in Tokyo (Isager): Started. I was looking at the pictures and the charts, and the pattern as written is not what is in the pictures! So odd. I am going to finish up two cones of yarn with this project! Pretty exciting. I hope I don't run out of light blue. I was working along on it, and if you go and look at the sweater, it's knit bottom-up, and I was at the part where I only had two colors, about 5" maybe. And I was thinking, "wow, this is pretty ugly! Maybe I should stop...

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