Time for another research roundup — but do check the note at the end, if you’re an aspiring author.
Most of the links this week were very definitely part of a Theme, or at least two themes which happened to relate internally. There was one noteworthy outlier of Greek fire, mostly for a separate thought which needed a metaphor which led me to the concept of fire burning on water, whose name I couldn’t be completely sure I remembered, so I looked it up.
I also went for a good long spiel starting with Runes, took a detour into Ogham (whose name I couldn’t initially remember), and then went on to ancient Greek languages, Runes in Greece, and some surrounding history of the time. Yes, the Greek fire was indeed unrelated, promise.
There was also a brief ramble through Duck Duck Go for what kinds of gear UK police officers had, searching specifically for whether any of it relates to electrical conduction (or protection). The sheer lack of anything indicated led me to ‘not likely’ — that, or I just didn’t have the knowledge to do a correct search (most of these sites I skimmed for keywords, so this is entirely possible). Either way, ‘nope’ was the answer I thought I’d get; but I’ve been surprised before, so I tend to check. Just in case.
On the less thematic side of things, I did a brief idle search for Ireland and moorlands, and the combination thereof, and had a burning need to remember the bones in the human skeletal arm, for perhaps obvious reasons.
All up, a fairly easy mosey through research hell, though at the time it certainly didn’t feel like it, since the bulk of this was a hurried and blurry chase in the middle of frantic writing. Sometimes it works better for me; sometimes it just does not.
That’s all I’ve got this time. This week was mind-munching, since I had some training I wanted to get done which got in the way of writing much in combination with a major distraction, a good deal of which I’m regretting now but obviously can’t do much about. I did get the training done — most of it — so hopefully next week will be a little easier.
My final note: check out these blogs by Kris Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith regarding Kickstarter and indie publishing. I’ve never eyeballed Kickstarter before now as too complicated for my early stage of career, but I’ve signed up for WGM’s free course and it might be worthwhile for others too. (Check out the rest of their blogs in general, also; Kris has some good knowledge on the current state of publishing and the importance of online publishing in particular which adds context to the Kickstarter stuff.)
That’s it. Tally-ho!
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