In Process -- April 2020

Wind/Water/Salt
Chapter 24: Read again and posted.
Chapter 26: Read and posted (with an explanation of what happened to Chapter 25 which I deleted).
Chapter 27: Read and moved the second half to chapter 29, then expanded the first half so there was some tension (I hope).
Chapter 28: I considered deleting this one too, but the world needs more Abigail. Maybe I'll move it into the Chapter 25 spot?
Worked on my synopsis, which I will need.
Chapter 29-31: Read for new continuity, because I changed some things that had ripple effects.

Persephone (probably not its real name)
I was wandering about outside one day and my B-plot fell onto me, basically. And it's a good B-plot that makes sense I think now. It basically came with locations and a rhythm that meshes well with the A-plot and uses my characters in an interesting way.

Short Story
Notes for two.

Connecting
Critted 8
Got back 8

Subs

Knitting
Sunny skies of winter (KP 2015 FI) Finished cuff of second sleeve. I did not enjoy the finishing on this project.
Candlemas by Jean Moss. Started month with about 3 inches of front. (Back was finished in March.) Did both sleeves, noticed there are gussets (!), didn't run out of yarn yet.
Chasing Snakes socks. (Knitty) Started month with half of top of first sock. Finished. The colors (I used self-striping yarn) match pretty well, but I messed up the chart somewhere and I could never figure out where -- maybe when I ripped out eight rows on the first sock? I don't think anyone else will look closely enough to notice.
Soxx #12. Finished.
Soxx #1: Started.

I also sewed four face masks.

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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