Noveling is like knitting in a rather surprising and odd way. When you knit a sweater, you have to check your gauge first – make sure you’ve got the right size needles and yarn for the sweater to come out the right size. Even then, once you start the sweater, you may find your gauge off, the sweater flapping in the breeze even though it should have fit a six year old, or an extra-large that’s now going to look quite nice – as a dog sweater.
Patience – if you want to have the right sweater or the right novel. Thing is, you have to write the novel, knit the sweater, in order to even have something to correct. It’s part of the process – to correct. Thus go the knitting and the noveling this week. Imperfectly, but growing.
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