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[haptalaon]

Ok, initial publication of Fencraft stuff coming in the next month. Anyone got resources for how to wrangle a lot of ideas and papers into a single coherent form?

I've been typing some up this afternoon and just hit 34 pages - and I know I've got a similar number of words published on my old website, and the same again on my husband's laptop, and I really think in need an initial "it's finished" to help me spot the gaps, and stop re-doing work. And to move onto the next stage of, ok here's the cosmology, let's write a liturgy.

(And maybe also like the bit where other people participate? I feel complex things about that.)

I think once I've got it all assembled, with an initial version printed that I can hold, I'll feel like...This phase is done, and I can go on to living it & writing more in depth reflections on the spirits and values implied in the original texts.

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[ilthit]

I'd love to help, if I can. I have some experience putting together ebooks and still remember how to format university papers for clarity, I don't really have any better credentials than that.

[haptalaon]

Thank you - that's really kind. I'll let you know if there's anything I can ask for help for, which isn't "beta read and edit my entire project".

I guess it's more about the number of interlocked concepts a religion has, and trying to break them down into a logical order so that no one is confused or underwhelmed on the one hand, or bored and patronised on the other.

[ilthit]

I'd advise clarity even if a reader will feel patronized--it's better to say too much than not enough, if you have scope to spare. I've been listening to a lot of audio courses which drive the point home, because I am learning a lot, and so yes perhaps I already know something of what's being told, but somebody else will not, so it's still valuable to put in there. (Though then sometimes I want to stand up and shout at the professor to say that the frame story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the same as the Irish myth of Cú Roí and Cú Chulainn, because why wouldn't she mention that when talking about Gawain, but that's my problem!)