May 05
Loosening Tangles
Posted: under Background, Craft, the writing life.
Tags: Background, craft of writing, progress report, the writing life May 5th, 2011
I’ve been knitting again, and the ball of yarn from which I’m knitting (ball, not skein) developed some tangles in its innards (it’s a commercially wound ball; they do this sometimes.) It was necessary to partially eviscerate the ball (reading into the hole and feeling around and then pulling a hunk out) to untangle it. This is remarkably like what’s gone on with the story the past few days, and is a clear sign that my sudden urge to start knitting again was connected to more than hand pain–my brain needed the tactile and musculo-skeletal input.