Reflections on #AcWriMo
I closed AcWriMo with a trip to Oxford. It’s necessary for what I’m writing because the original archaeological reports for some sites are from the 1920s or earlier. There were very few Archaeology...
View ArticleA change of direction for #AcWriMo
It’s been an awkward week this week. I have more work arriving and the building work at home is getting more intense. One new job means I’ll be changing direction for the last week of AcWriMo. There’s...
View ArticleDerailed and positive #AcWriMo
In a change that surprises me, I actually like this chapter. It’ll need re-writing, but perhaps not as much as the others. I’ve decided to follow Richard Poss’s model for art history in...
View ArticleThinking about distribution — #AcWriMo
The chapter on alignments is now in the draft. We’ll take the usual grumbles as read. They’re still very real to me, but I’m getting bored of them. I think a turning point has been realising that a...
View Article…and that closes the Astronomy section #AcWriMo
nattu / FlickrPeople rejoice as I stop inflicting astronomy chapters on them. That’s the last of the astronomy section done. It’s a bit of a hodge-podge but in this case I’m not sure I could make it...
View ArticleChapter two is up — #AcWriMo
The star chapter is finished. I think I’ve missed some things. I ought to talk about magnitudes and that would best fit in this chapter. Instead of hold back the chapter I’m releasing it now and moving...
View ArticleHurrah! I’ve written a chapter, two if you count the second. #AcWriMo
The Introduction doesn’t feel like a proper chapter, not least because I’ll have to re-write it once the book is done. This is the first chapter proper and it’s longer than I expected. I have been...
View ArticleIntroducing the book — #AcWriMo
If you haven’t read the first post on this, you can nip back to see why I’m doing this or just dive in. Below is an ePub of the first section of the book I’m going to write over November. This might...
View ArticleNovember Writing
I’ve recently had more test results back following an operation and found out that the thing that’s kept me busy all summer wasn’t cancer, merely something that could easily be mistaken for cancer. I...
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