In process -- June 2013

First Draft
“This is the Church, and This is the Steeple”. Might have written 10,000 words, and about a thousand of those after I’d written “the end”, but finally finished.
“Cartographer”. Short story. Waterman butterfly! Rivers forgotten! I started and finished this, and it’s crap but whatever. The plot starts around page 9 of 16.
“Vulgar Pony”. Short story. Started.

Editing
“Don’t Choose Astronaut”. Got it under 3000 words, but it makes me sad now.
“Lucky Kate”. Yeah, I read it and set it aside.
“Selkie Girls are Easy.” Draft three had been underway at the start of the month, and it took me half the month to finish, but finish it I did (draft 3).

Connecting
CZ reading series 12 June had GGK. How could I not go to that?

Circulating
1 out there.
8 rejects for 2013 so far.

Knitting
“Biohazard”. (pullover) Finished. Now if only it was cold enough to wear it.
“Ceremonial Armour”. KF cardigan. No real progress – maybe two rows.
IK Vertex cardigan spring 2013. This was great for knitting in the car. I’m five inches below the armholes.
Insubordination Socks. In my day job, the branding group sent out guidelines on how to use our new logo. Our favorite page, of course, was the “don’t” page. Using the logo as an all-over pattern was in there, and once I saw that, what else could I do?
Penzance. The picture in my head for this project is SO AWESOME. The yarn is Cascade 220. What can go wrong? I swatched it.

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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