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hrjI post a lot about the projects I'm working on. How about a post about the projects I'm not working on?
There is a spreadsheet on my laptop, created in 2006 and last updated in 2009 entitled "Projects". The idea behind it was that there are a lot of projects, both large and small, that I have partially completed that might need nothing more than a slight reminder to bump them onto the "to-done list". The spreadsheet has coded fields for:
Category (databases, events, personal favors, legal issues, publications, web site)
Type (article, novel, paper, conversions, corrections, interfaces, organization projects, updates)
Field (Welsh history journal, cookery, costuming, embroidery, publications, linguistics, names, SCA, misc.)
Topic (lots of highly specific keywords)
Priority (high, medium low)
Work Required (major, medium, minor)
There are 87 entries in the spreadsheet. 2 are marked "cancelled". 6 are marked "done". Here's a sampling of the detritus of my creative life, left scattered along the road.
Categorized under "high priority, major work required": A series of informative articles on the topic "Linguistics for SCA heralds" intended to help with the concepts and terminology needed to advise on the construction of medieval-style personal names. Status: not done.
Categorized under "high priority, minor work required": 3 items either cancelled or complete. 1 item incomplete - correct the citation of one of the academic papers listed on my website. (Still not corrected.)
Categorized under "low priority, minor work required": Turn my research on medieval evidence regarding Welsh oatcakes into a website article. (Not done) An item with the description "query link regarding dissertation downloads" which I have no idea what I meant by that. (Obviously not done.)
Categorized under "low priority, major work required":
1. Assemble and publish Issue #6 of Y Camamseriad (my medieval Welsh research journal). Instead I have ceased publication.
2. Take the database of medieval Welsh preposition data from my dissertation research and put it online in usable format. (Probably a very useful thing to do, but oh boy would it be a lot of work.)
3. Create a class or paper on how to present an early modern "Welsh accent when speaking English" for historic re-enactment purposes based on linguistic analysis of historic sources.
4. Create an article on the schematic structure of Old Irish compound personal names.
5. Create a companion article on men's names to my article Names of Women of the Brythonic North in the 5-7th Centuries
6. Create an article discussing the schematic structure of Welsh place-names.
7. Create an article on issues, origins, and variants of the personal name "Tristan".
8. Create an index of Welsh place-names occurring in Speed's 16th c. atlas, cross-referenced by the standard modern form and location.
9. Create a survey and technique article on embroidery found in Coptic Egyptian sites.
10. Return to my trunk novel Iultig's Dreams to revise for publication.
11. Finish putting my great great grandfather's Civil War diaries and correspondence on my website.
12. Turn the existing fragments and notes labeled "Raven" into a fantasy novel.
13. Return to my trunk novel The Rebellious Heart to revise for publication. (This is the lesbian historic romance set at the time of the Boudiccan rebellion that I mentioned in passing a couple months ago.)
14. Create a website version of my research article on the medieval artistic motif of the "shepherd's purse". Hey, you know what? I did this just recently. Woo hoo! (I still need to go back and fix a whole bunch of the image links.)
15. Return to adding lessons to my online lessons A Self-Taught Course in Medieval Welsh.
16. Turn my class presentation on the construction of geometric-cut garments into a web article. (I have a powerpoint presentation. It would be so easy just to turn it into a slide show...)
17. Turn my class presentation on no-sew Iron Age gathered-toe shoes into a website article.
18. Create an article on the use of chain stitch in medieval embroidery (as penance for spending years doubting that chain stitch was used in that context).
19. Create a cross-linguistic glossary of embroidery terminology to make it easier to interpret museum catalog descriptions in other languages.
And, of course, there are a lot of projects in between that are either medium priority or involve a medium amount of work. (30 coded as medium work, 37 coded as medium priority) Just to complete the guided tour, let's look at the 9 that fall in both medium categories:
1. Set up a website for selling my desktop publishing products. (Never going to happen. If I ever decide to sell self-published things in hardcopy again,it will be through one of those print-on-demand companies. Though I still have a whole bunch of songbooks from my filking days sitting in inventory.)
2. Create an article analyzing the various versions of the early genealogical material on the children of Brychan Brycheiniog and discussing which of the personal names are likely to be genuine and which are scribal corruptions or errors.
3. Create an article discussing how the Welsh name Rhys appears in various times, places, and linguistic contexts.
4. Create a semi-humorous, semi-serious discussion in collaboration with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
scotica on whether the word spelled "celtic" is properly pronunced "keltic" or "seltic".
5. Turn my class presentation on figurative embroidery on surviving European garments from before AD 1000 into a website article.
6. Turn my class presentation on examples of sewing workboxes in medieval art and archaeology into a website article.
7. Create a semi-humorous, semi-serious historic-background article (in collaboration withscotica) entitled "So you want to be a Celt?" intended to guide historic re-enactors away from egregious errors.
8. Update my web article on the Llangors embroidery find.
9. Create re-drawings of the relevant art for my paper "Getting Into Medieval Women's Underpants" and post it on my website (since I've decided I simply don't have the interest in turning it into a professional publication).
And those are all the projects that I'm NOT working on at the moment. What aren't you working on currently?
There is a spreadsheet on my laptop, created in 2006 and last updated in 2009 entitled "Projects". The idea behind it was that there are a lot of projects, both large and small, that I have partially completed that might need nothing more than a slight reminder to bump them onto the "to-done list". The spreadsheet has coded fields for:
Category (databases, events, personal favors, legal issues, publications, web site)
Type (article, novel, paper, conversions, corrections, interfaces, organization projects, updates)
Field (Welsh history journal, cookery, costuming, embroidery, publications, linguistics, names, SCA, misc.)
Topic (lots of highly specific keywords)
Priority (high, medium low)
Work Required (major, medium, minor)
There are 87 entries in the spreadsheet. 2 are marked "cancelled". 6 are marked "done". Here's a sampling of the detritus of my creative life, left scattered along the road.
Categorized under "high priority, major work required": A series of informative articles on the topic "Linguistics for SCA heralds" intended to help with the concepts and terminology needed to advise on the construction of medieval-style personal names. Status: not done.
Categorized under "high priority, minor work required": 3 items either cancelled or complete. 1 item incomplete - correct the citation of one of the academic papers listed on my website. (Still not corrected.)
Categorized under "low priority, minor work required": Turn my research on medieval evidence regarding Welsh oatcakes into a website article. (Not done) An item with the description "query link regarding dissertation downloads" which I have no idea what I meant by that. (Obviously not done.)
Categorized under "low priority, major work required":
1. Assemble and publish Issue #6 of Y Camamseriad (my medieval Welsh research journal). Instead I have ceased publication.
2. Take the database of medieval Welsh preposition data from my dissertation research and put it online in usable format. (Probably a very useful thing to do, but oh boy would it be a lot of work.)
3. Create a class or paper on how to present an early modern "Welsh accent when speaking English" for historic re-enactment purposes based on linguistic analysis of historic sources.
4. Create an article on the schematic structure of Old Irish compound personal names.
5. Create a companion article on men's names to my article Names of Women of the Brythonic North in the 5-7th Centuries
6. Create an article discussing the schematic structure of Welsh place-names.
7. Create an article on issues, origins, and variants of the personal name "Tristan".
8. Create an index of Welsh place-names occurring in Speed's 16th c. atlas, cross-referenced by the standard modern form and location.
9. Create a survey and technique article on embroidery found in Coptic Egyptian sites.
10. Return to my trunk novel Iultig's Dreams to revise for publication.
11. Finish putting my great great grandfather's Civil War diaries and correspondence on my website.
12. Turn the existing fragments and notes labeled "Raven" into a fantasy novel.
13. Return to my trunk novel The Rebellious Heart to revise for publication. (This is the lesbian historic romance set at the time of the Boudiccan rebellion that I mentioned in passing a couple months ago.)
14. Create a website version of my research article on the medieval artistic motif of the "shepherd's purse". Hey, you know what? I did this just recently. Woo hoo! (I still need to go back and fix a whole bunch of the image links.)
15. Return to adding lessons to my online lessons A Self-Taught Course in Medieval Welsh.
16. Turn my class presentation on the construction of geometric-cut garments into a web article. (I have a powerpoint presentation. It would be so easy just to turn it into a slide show...)
17. Turn my class presentation on no-sew Iron Age gathered-toe shoes into a website article.
18. Create an article on the use of chain stitch in medieval embroidery (as penance for spending years doubting that chain stitch was used in that context).
19. Create a cross-linguistic glossary of embroidery terminology to make it easier to interpret museum catalog descriptions in other languages.
And, of course, there are a lot of projects in between that are either medium priority or involve a medium amount of work. (30 coded as medium work, 37 coded as medium priority) Just to complete the guided tour, let's look at the 9 that fall in both medium categories:
1. Set up a website for selling my desktop publishing products. (Never going to happen. If I ever decide to sell self-published things in hardcopy again,it will be through one of those print-on-demand companies. Though I still have a whole bunch of songbooks from my filking days sitting in inventory.)
2. Create an article analyzing the various versions of the early genealogical material on the children of Brychan Brycheiniog and discussing which of the personal names are likely to be genuine and which are scribal corruptions or errors.
3. Create an article discussing how the Welsh name Rhys appears in various times, places, and linguistic contexts.
4. Create a semi-humorous, semi-serious discussion in collaboration with
scotica on whether the word spelled "celtic" is properly pronunced "keltic" or "seltic".5. Turn my class presentation on figurative embroidery on surviving European garments from before AD 1000 into a website article.
6. Turn my class presentation on examples of sewing workboxes in medieval art and archaeology into a website article.
7. Create a semi-humorous, semi-serious historic-background article (in collaboration with
scotica) entitled "So you want to be a Celt?" intended to guide historic re-enactors away from egregious errors.8. Update my web article on the Llangors embroidery find.
9. Create re-drawings of the relevant art for my paper "Getting Into Medieval Women's Underpants" and post it on my website (since I've decided I simply don't have the interest in turning it into a professional publication).
And those are all the projects that I'm NOT working on at the moment. What aren't you working on currently?
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Date: 2015-10-16 04:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-16 06:04 am (UTC)I am not working on the earth cellar (need to wait for spring; no point in playing with concrete now that it freezes at night), finishing the archway into the office, the new pantry shelves, a new underdress, my Viking cloak, and lots, lots more...
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Date: 2015-10-16 09:07 am (UTC)My list of things I haven't done/haven't worked on has come on a bit since I posted this, but I just added another one this morning, revisiting Kilvington's Sophism 47, because I still think despite all the people who've wrestled with it so far, we don't have a complete understanding of it simply because we haven't approached it right.
The biggest thing I haven't done that I need to do ASAP is read (and then review) the new translation of Buridan's Treatise on Consequences. I got it in May, I had 6 months to read/review it, and, as almost always happens, I'm down to ~3-4 weeks before the review is due and all I've read is the introduction.
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Date: 2015-10-16 01:33 pm (UTC)That research on the early modern "Welsh accent when speaking English" sounds interesting. Though considering how much the current Welsh accent varies from place to place (both when speaking English and when speaking Welsh), it's probably tricky.
Re Keltic/Seltic, I was under the impression that it was always "Keltic", unless it's the football team of course. And now, having Googled, I see that it's all a bit more complicated, but as the original was Greek and spelled with a "k" my vote is for "Keltic". :)
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Date: 2015-10-16 02:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-16 02:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-16 02:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-16 02:42 pm (UTC)I was working from three types of 16th century sources. One is transcriptions of Welsh names and words by English speakers, showing some of the most noticeable pronunciation differences, or the ways in which Welsh sounds that aren't used in English were interpreted. The other two are a lot trickier to use. There are a couple of "phrasebooks for the traveler in Wales" that offer suggested words and phrases that might be encountered (or used), transcribed in English phonology. The problem is that many of these are overtly satirical and racist, so while the linguistic aspects may be based on actual observation, the content can be quite problematic. The last type of source is examples of "stage Welsh" from drama (such as Shakespeare's Fflewellen, though he's far from the only writer who used this type of representation). Again, the biggest problem is that these are clearly caricatures meant to present semi-comic figures. But when the features of the depicted speech are picked apart into individual elements and compared to known features of the Welsh language that might be expected to bleed over into a Welsh speaker's English, it's still possible to come up with some ideas.
My intended audience for the article was American historic re-enactors doing theatrical-type performances, so the theatrical approach has a certain validity if it avoids the offensive stereotypes.
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Date: 2015-10-16 08:26 pm (UTC)Also I'm not working on three separate novels and two separate short(ish) stories. This is making me feel abominably guilty because I don't allow myself to work on anything new until I've finished at least one thing (meaning I'm basically not writing at all now, because it's blocking me). (and this, too, makes me feel guilty)
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Date: 2015-10-23 04:25 am (UTC)1. Create a semi-humorous, semi-serious discussion in collaboration with
2. Create a semi-humorous, semi-serious historic-background article (in collaboration with
(Sorry, couldn't resist :-)
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Date: 2015-10-26 11:00 pm (UTC)2) The projects I am not working on are "all of them." Actually, that's not even accurate. I don't even think I have projects that I'm avoiding, at least when it comes to SCA things. Clearly, a reevaluation is necessary :)
Re: Thoughts upon reading this
Date: 2015-10-27 12:08 am (UTC)