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WIP Wednesday – March 14

Knitting

I was at The Twisted Purl yesterday finishing up my purple pair of Veritaserum socks when Cyndi showed me a pair of fingerless gloves she was knitting out of one of the shop’s specialty yarns by Leon Alexander. The pattern was Emily O’Brien’s Practically Perfect Mitts and I was in love! I love fingerless gloves and this pattern was so cute! So I had to have it, which gave me an excuse to buy the Mama Deb yarn I’d been eying since the trunk show two weeks ago. When I got home that evening, I cast on for the first mitt. And finished it this afternoon.

Yeah, I’m a fast knitter. And I have just fallen in love with fingering weight yarn in the past seven months or so since I started visiting the Purl. Up till then, my loves were worsted and sport weight. Now I hardly use either anymore, except for that worsted weight poncho I started a few weeks back (which is still not done).

Writing

Honestly, once the 10k-words week was over in February, I’ve struggled to even write that many words in the last month. There’s another one coming up next week, and I plan to do better than I have been.

I’m also planning for Camp NaNoWriMo in April – I’m going to attempt a YA sci-fi/fantasy novel which, if it goes as I hope, will be the first of a trilogy, based on some title prompts I found in the NaNoWriMo forums. I’m trying to plan out my main character and I have a vague idea of the plot, but with eighteen days left till April 1, I need to buckle down and get working on that plot.

What’s your favorite plotting method(s)? How do you plan your characters? Are you participating in Camp NaNoWriMo this round?

Author:

Mary has been an avid reader since childhood. She fell in love with writing in fourth grade and has kept up the love affair ever since. Her adventures in all things yarn began in sixth grade when her mom taught her to crochet. And now that she knows how to knit, crochet, spin yarn, and weave, the sky’s the limit! She’s a 13-year participant in NaNoWriMo, one-time winner, two-time Camp NaNoWriMo winner, and is always excited for the next one!

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