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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

T minus one

NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow! Hubby and I will be at the St Charles write-in at the Crooked Tree Coffee House on First Capitol Drive. The St Louis region on NaNoWriMo has officially challenged Columbia, MO, Manchester, England and the entire country of Wales to a Word War. Last year we

T minus three

I have a plot! And a cast of characters! I finally feel like I might be ready for NaNoWriMo 2008. There is a nice circular "finish where you started" thread going through the story, and my minor characters have definite things to do that advance the plot. It&

T minus five

Went to the St Louis NaNoWriMo kick-off party on Saturday. Hubby and I are so used to NaNo events taking place on Sunday, we woke up the next day convinced we had to go back to work, and had a second Sunday this weekend. Photos from the party are

T minus seven

I'm looking at November with a tinge of panic. My 2008 NaNoWriMo plot isn't as fleshed out as I like, I have only vague idea of how my good guy is going to defeat the bad guy. There are some cool ideas but I need research

Cormo and Targhee

I'm still spinning Cormo, though I set the wheel back to the slowest ratio. There's about 2oz left to go before Navajo plying, which should probably be attacked on a relaxed Friday afternoon with a glass of Bailey's for good measure. Slowing down the

Knit recap

Eris continues. Wound another skein of Cascade 220 and started the hem. It might end up longer than the pattern says, but I like long cardigans and I have two extra skeins of yarn anyway. I'm working on the short rows to set up the curved hem pieces,

Reading the dictionary

BBC News: The man who reads dictionaries. Ammon Shea spent a year reading the Oxford English Dictionary - 20 volumes, 21,730 pages and 59 million words - and he rates poring over a dictionary as enriching as reading a novel. Why? The prospect of talking to a man who reads dictionaries

Snow on Mars

BBC News: Phoenix detects Red Planet snow. The Phoenix spacecraft on Mars has detected snow above its landing site. The US robot used its lidar instrument to probe the structure of clouds and saw large water ice-crystals falling through the Martian "air". The instrument, which works by

Spin cycle

Went to the Weaving Dept Spin in on Saturday 11th, and spent a happy few hours spinning outside with Susan and Kay. I got more spinning done that day than in the preceding six months, and learned an important lesson: Stop spinning like a hamster on meth. It's

Whine and Cheese

PhoeKnits posted recently about the seeming forced happiness on knit blogs. I keep most of the personal stuff off these pages and I have reasons for that. This space is about knitting and science and news and spinning and writing, stuff that bounces around my head that I want recorded.

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