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thanateNo new words for Monday or Tuesday, but I began working through the first draft of The Witch, The Weaver & The Wood (Caroline, book 1) last night with intent to do things like clean up the chronology & continuity, write a summary, and um... break it into chapters. Sadly, I like it better as just a continuous flow, but I don't think that goes over very well in terms of marketing. I also wrote to the Viable Paradise people & asked whether they would look askance at something YA as a submission manuscript, since I think this could better use outside input than most of the short stories I've got right now. We shall see.
Several different people have been talking about hair care recently, and I am finding that the people who write hair care websites are working with very different sets of assumptions than I am. The general advice for curls or waves tells you not to blow dry (I don't own a hair dryer, so that's ok), and offers thoughts on "second day hair"... which is all very well, but for much of the year, if I want to do anything but lie about with my hair spread out around me (see icon) while it's drying, part of my hair will probably still be damp the second day. Other parts will be tangled and need brushing, and apparently nobody has attempted to come up with a way to preserve curls or waves through brushing; they just say you're on no account to do it unless your hair is wet.
Well, I have no particular desire to give myself hypothermia someday by going about with my hair constantly wet, and I have no desire at all to be bothered to wash it every other day. I've got a lot of hair, and so long as I brush it regularly I don't need to wash it more than once a week or so in summer, and at most twice a month in winter. But this means that for most of the time, anything I might want to know about how to get my hair to do exciting things is up to me to figure out, because the only "help" appears to be provided by and for people with much shorter hair who shower daily and get it wet all the time.
Someday, I will probably stop expecting any sort of standardly available beauty advice to apply to me...
Also of interest, from the artist Laurel Roth: Fascinated with women’s traditional use of fiber-craft to provide safety and comfort, I have been crocheting small suits for urban pigeons that disguise them as extinct birds, thereby (visually) re-creating biodiversity and soothing environmental fears. I am quite fond of the Carolina Parakeet, and impressed by the ivory-billed woodpecker's waistcoat buttons. If you follow the link to her main "works" page, she's also got some very elegant resin "crystal" skulls, and (speaking of beauty advice) a small flock of lovely peacocks made from hair clips and false fingernails.
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Several different people have been talking about hair care recently, and I am finding that the people who write hair care websites are working with very different sets of assumptions than I am. The general advice for curls or waves tells you not to blow dry (I don't own a hair dryer, so that's ok), and offers thoughts on "second day hair"... which is all very well, but for much of the year, if I want to do anything but lie about with my hair spread out around me (see icon) while it's drying, part of my hair will probably still be damp the second day. Other parts will be tangled and need brushing, and apparently nobody has attempted to come up with a way to preserve curls or waves through brushing; they just say you're on no account to do it unless your hair is wet.
Well, I have no particular desire to give myself hypothermia someday by going about with my hair constantly wet, and I have no desire at all to be bothered to wash it every other day. I've got a lot of hair, and so long as I brush it regularly I don't need to wash it more than once a week or so in summer, and at most twice a month in winter. But this means that for most of the time, anything I might want to know about how to get my hair to do exciting things is up to me to figure out, because the only "help" appears to be provided by and for people with much shorter hair who shower daily and get it wet all the time.
Someday, I will probably stop expecting any sort of standardly available beauty advice to apply to me...
Also of interest, from the artist Laurel Roth: Fascinated with women’s traditional use of fiber-craft to provide safety and comfort, I have been crocheting small suits for urban pigeons that disguise them as extinct birds, thereby (visually) re-creating biodiversity and soothing environmental fears. I am quite fond of the Carolina Parakeet, and impressed by the ivory-billed woodpecker's waistcoat buttons. If you follow the link to her main "works" page, she's also got some very elegant resin "crystal" skulls, and (speaking of beauty advice) a small flock of lovely peacocks made from hair clips and false fingernails.
Experimentally cross-posty from dreamwidth. Comments encouraged in either location.