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In Process: April 2021


After last month's disappointing progress, this month I made some changes. I have tons of stuff that can just be typed. If I do some of that, it counts. And of course I need to push ahead with WWS.  

Wind/Water/Salt 

  • Chapters 29-48: Need to take up comments and revise. 
  • Chapter 49-50: Finished and posted. 
  • Chapter 51: It was nothing but a little heap of bones but I filled it in a lot. 
Persephone (probably not its real name): Madeline Ashby said something really useful on Twitter about blackmail, and I think I can finish a draft now. I wrote eight scenes that run a thread from beginning to end. Now I need a bunch more of those! 
Short Stories: I almost made an outline of one I started, but that never quite happened. 
Critted 10 Got back 15 (seems backwards, doesn't it?) 
Submissions  Out there 1 Rejects 1

Knitting
  • Penzance socks #2. Out of time-out, finished. I had to start over because I have giant calves. 
  • Penzance socks #5. Finished.
  • I think I've knit enough of these now. Last month I mentioned I'd intended to get this one published but didn't quite get around to it. I started 
  • Penzance mittens. Okay, maybe I'm not completely done with it. Started the first one. 

  • Ballet Wrap (IK Spring 2005). Still working on the 10-foot-long sash. 
Sewed reverse French seams and more flat felled seams on that jumper.  
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