Cheklov's Stuff

So it's time once again for me to start screaming, primal, into the void as I figure out what I'm doing for NaNoWriMo. Before I get into that, though, I'm going to point out that NaNo has a new site? It's kinda neat when it works! You can find me here .  It's weird to think I've been doing this since 2004, but here we are. So this year, I'm going to work on the same story I worked on in 2014 and sorta 2018 - sorta because I got basically nothing re-written last year. It's Ghostlight! The idea behind Ghostlight is sometimes I get a bizarre craving for writing a Weird West-ish setting, but I also like Lovecraftian madness and fantasy too much, so I smushed it all together into one messy pile and got the base concept for this novel. Also I love trains? Because there are trains. I think my problem in my two previous attempts were I was humanizing the non-human monster-people too much. Yes there are non-human monster people, each

Okay, so I know I'm waaaay behind for September, but I continue to be a medical trainwreck so I refuse to feel guilty about it. Same goes for a distinct lack of other crafting and posting. We are getting into writing season, so there is that to be said. Hopefully I'll be picking up the posting schedule through October and into NaNo in November. Anyway, on to the September fiber box...or rather, bag! So, funny story - for some reason my delivery notifications are going into my spam filter, so I'd remembered seeing the shipping notification, but nothing ever came saying 'Hey, it's here!'. But then I saw the ChemKnits unboxing go up, and went, "Wait. Waaaait. I should have mine by now!" and sure enough it was in the delivery bag, and had been there since the previous Saturday. Whoops. So this month, instead of a little white box, we got a glorious golden bag! You betcha I popped that sucker open as soon as found my knife! (Please ignore the f