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I am Dani Smith, sometimes known around the web as Eglentyne.  I am a writer in Texas.  I like my beer and my chocolate bitter and my pens pointy.

This blog is one of my hobbies.  I also knit, sew, run, parent, cook, eat, read, and procrastinate.  I have too many hobbies and don’t sleep enough.  Around here I talk about whatever is on my mind, mostly reading and writing, but if you hang out long enough, some knitting is bound to show up.  

Thank you for respecting my intellectual property and for promoting the free-flow of information and ideas.  If you’re not respecting intellectual property, then you’re stealing.  Don’t be a stealer.  Steelers are ok sometimes (not all of them), but don’t be a thief.  

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    I am Dani Smith 

    I am a Writer, Mother, Knitter, Sewer, Former-Medievalist, Creator, Ponderer, Reader, (Sometimes) Runner, living in Coastal Texas.  I have university degrees in Biochemistry and English Literature. When I teach my friends to bake bread I talk about proteins and yeast-belching and the poetry of that fresh-bread smell.  I’m a little granola-crunchy and a little antisocial, but I love to read about Interesting People and the Cool, Creative things they do in their lives.  Bring on the awesome.

    On these pages I talk about whatever happens to occur to me when I sit down to write.  I talk about what I’ve been reading and writing.  I talk about my three kids, Sonar X6, Sonar X8, and Sonar X11 (the number in their name is their current age).  I talk about whatever hairbrained craft is engaging me (with yarn, fabric, mangoes, rocks, or rubber tubing).

    If the ramblings of a crafty, liberal, sandy writer interest you, I hope you’ll stop by regularly.  And leave a note in the comments!  My email address and social networking links are over in a sidebar.  I may be a little antisocial, but I love messages as much as anybody else, and I’ll reply!   

     

    The “Something Knitty” Story

    In late October 2005, an instigator—ahem, I mean friend (Hi Crys!) talked me into writing a novel.  I thought she was crazy.  I thought I was crazy.  I think we still are.  Crys ‘rassled (that’s fake-Texas talk) me into NaNoWriMo ‘05.  My story was about a knitter whose yarn started talking to her.  I surprised myself completely, and on November 30, 2005, I finished my first draft.  Crazy.  

    All through the month I pondered titles.  For a little while I called the book “Something Witty” as a placeholder, figuring I’d come up with a funny title to stick in there.  That morphed into “Something Knitty,” as in “the title should be a knitting pun or something.”  But “Something Knitty” stuck to the novel, and to a lot of other stuff, including this blog, and the bottom of my shoe.  

     

    Intellectual Property Statement

    I put together the images and the words on these pages with thoughtfulness and love (not to mention sleeplessness and sweat).  If you would like to quote small passages, please feel free to do so as long as you attribute them to me and link back to this site.  If you would like to repost large sections or whole posts, please contact me for permission and verification.