Summertime busy

Working steady on the rewrite now that I’ve gone through it once to take out the found typos and answer the small stuff. It’s the global changes that I enjoy most about the rewrite process, and I’ve got a lot of them in this manuscript, taking out a character, putting one in I hadn’t intended, changing the villain focus from a force of nature to something more concrete and easy. So far it’s working. Chapter one was a bear, but it should go faster for a few chapters while things set up. I cut out a whopping four pages from chapter two, but the shocker was the new last sentence of it, something I didn’t expect at ALL! Which is why I love rewrites–the surprises that come from a handful of new ideas and concepts that sort of burst into culmination as you write it, and then you look at it and say “Damn! I either did something really good, or really bad right here.”

Too bad I won’t know for almost a year, eh? -laugh-

But I think you’ll like it.

As for “therapy,” I’ve got a new knitting book I’m working through to use some of the new yarn I fell in love with. The Giraffe is actually my own pattern, a huge modification of the horse pattern I’d worked with last month that is using up some local homespun/dyed yarn I picked up last year at the farmer’s market. But the Jellyfish I followed to the letter. Ah, except for the last bit. The yarn is wrapped, meaning there is a cord core wrapped by

colorful, stretchy thread. I thought it would be fun to unwrap a yard or two and use the core for the inner tentacles and the stretchy bits for the outer. It’s kind of hard to see in the small picture, but I think you can click it for a bigger one. Looks like that imperial probe on Hoth if you ask me. Kim on Ravelry

I’m going to do a octopus next.