I have a mitten pattern that I recently finished. I’m proud of this for two reasons. The first is that I successfully followed a pattern from start to finish with almost no modifications! This rarely happens, as I get frustrated with most patterns and start making up my own instructions, with hilarious results. The second [...]

I passed the halfway point on my novel! Huzzah! Unfortunately, I’m starting to really get bogged down. My characters have had so much introspection that I’m starting to grow rather tired of them. Time to send a little action and adventure their way, but what? Time travel? Ninja? Ninja-pirates? My favorite part of all is [...]

I have cleverly written my title in reverse order, the better to baffle and confuse my enemies! Herding amateur writers is not so dissimilar from herding cats. It becomes very hard to get them to go where you want them to go or to have them appear at the times you’d expect. I am referring, [...]

When I was in Kindergarden, my teacher really hesitated before letting me go into first grade. She wasn’t sure I was ready to move on just yet (she thought I wasn’t emotionally mature enough to handle it), and I was young enough that holding me back wouldn’t have really hurt me (instead of being the [...]

I admit that I started out looking for patterns on the Internet, but I was starting to feel pretty confident about my knitting skills and just went for it. In the end, the only thing I actually did look up was the cabling pattern that you can see on the front. What you can’t see [...]

Huzzah! It’s NaNoWriMo time, and I’ve already made a good showing at over 3500 words. I expect I’ll hit The Wall around 10,000, but I still have a good idea on where I want to go for the next few chapters, at least. Very roughly, it’s about a girl visiting her mother’s family in the [...]