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Eternal sweater progress report IV

If you walk into a yarn store and say you're thinking of setting fire to a recalcitrant sweater, be prepared for some horrified gasps. The sweater has a stay of execution, but I did wind the yarn for the next pair of socks and write over sixteen thousand

Of penguins and backups

My characters are misbehaving. The geologist started out as an annoying egomaniac, turns out he's recovering from depression and has a decent side. The two pilots were having an affair and didn't tell me, and my secondary character has elbowed her way into top billing. I

Off and meandering

About 20 people turned up for the St Louis NaNo write-in on Sunday, all tapping away on one Alphasmart, three Macs, and a bunch of PC laptops. Almost everyone was wearing headphones and ignoring the others, chugging coffee and slowly eroding their fingerprints. I am woefully behind on word count

Late starter

I have about 300 words on a NaNo novel. I'm not aiming to hit the 50k word count, I'm just going to take my time with it. But the sweater is driving me nuts and I needed a break. Hubby is doing great with his novel,

Eternal Sweater progress report III

(or: Oh no, not again!) After Monday's rip out, I put in the armhole decreases and got back to work. Measured front and back together, checked the sleeve will fit, and it didn't. Not. Even. Close. So I had to rip out a chunk of the

Racing robots

BBC News: Robot rally cars face tough race. Twenty-three cars are setting off on a remarkable race across the desert. From a distance, the cars look like any other rally cars tearing down the dusty roads. But closer inspection reveals that something odd is going on. There's no-one

Unlucky Fried Kitten

It's been a long time since I put together a list for my humour section. I learned from the comedy courses at Writer's Village University that comedy writing is harder work than writing straight because you have to keep polishing the almost-funny parts until the almost

Gutted

Had to rip out about seven inches of sweater front this lunchtime because I'd forgotten to put in the armhole shaping. That's over 50g of wool undone, a whole week of work pulled out in 20 minutes. I'd thought I was doing so well.

NaNoWriMo 2006

We went to the kick off party for St Louis NaNoWriMo Sunday afternoon. They want me to write. I told them I have a sweater to finish but they want me to write. The galling thing is that after a whole year with no story idea, I finally got mugged

Eternal Sweater progress report II

This is the end of my second week knitting just the Eternal Sweater. Today I got to the neck divide, which means I am 10 rows and one sleeve away from finishing a project I started in 1994! I'm pretty confident I have enough yarn left now. That&

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