research – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Sun, 20 Oct 2019 15:55:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg research – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 Just imagine a world in the #AnalogueFuture where the @bodleianlibs has a room devote to the 3000 volumes of printed @wikipedia to refer to during #research… ••• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes https://shepline.com/2019/10/20/just-imagine-a-world-in-the-analoguefuture-where-the-bodleianlibs-has-a-room-devote-to-the-3000-volumes-of-printed-wikipedia-to-refer-to-during-research-%e2%80%a2%e2%80%a2%e2%80%a2https-en-m/ https://shepline.com/2019/10/20/just-imagine-a-world-in-the-analoguefuture-where-the-bodleianlibs-has-a-room-devote-to-the-3000-volumes-of-printed-wikipedia-to-refer-to-during-research-%e2%80%a2%e2%80%a2%e2%80%a2https-en-m/#respond Sun, 20 Oct 2019 15:40:55 +0000 http://shepline.com/2019/10/20/just-imagine-a-world-in-the-analoguefuture-where-the-bodleianlibs-has-a-room-devote-to-the-3000-volumes-of-printed-wikipedia-to-refer-to-during-research-%e2%80%a2%e2%80%a2%e2%80%a2https-en-m/ Just imagine a world in the #AnalogueFuture where the @bodleianlibs has a room devote to the 3000 volumes of printed @wikipedia to refer to during #research... ••• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes

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]]> https://shepline.com/2019/10/20/if-you-were-to-print-the-entirety-of-wikipedia-into-multiple-bound-volumes-how-big-would-it-be-%e2%80%a2%e2%80%a2%e2%80%a2research-wikipedia-amwriting-nationalwritingday-analoguefuture/feed/ 0 Musings on the first day of a new year https://shepline.com/2018/01/01/musings-on-the-first-day-of-a-new-year/ https://shepline.com/2018/01/01/musings-on-the-first-day-of-a-new-year/#respond Mon, 01 Jan 2018 21:42:39 +0000 http://shepline.com/?p=16447 Last year, I pledged to journal more in these pages – to document my life in a more substantive way than on the various forms of social media that I make use of. For a while, it worked and I enjoyed it… And then I missed a day, and another, and then the routine was broken.

Tonight is the last day of a 24-day holiday, and whilst I have read lots it took until New Year’s Eve last night that I actually wrote anything more than a few short sentences. Tonight I’ve written some more and taken The Imaginary Wife to the final section. Now I just need to keep up this momentum, and I will be able to launch my third book at the fourth Hawkesbury Upton Literary Festival in April, at which I am due to appear.

I’m going to also try and keep up the routine of writing in these pages – of journaling my life. This is for me, but if you would like to read them also and draw pleasure from reading about my various creativity endeavours then please do. Subscribe if you like. I’m going to be writing, and editing, but I also greatly enjoyed getting back to my art during Inktober so I intend to do more of that to. And I want to attempt to do an illustration for the cover of the new book and will be documenting my attempts here. Should be fun getting back to my gouache paints!

Now, I’m off to look up a bit of Fairy Queen research and Thomas the Rhymer/Tam Lin ballads for that final showdown…

 

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For me, I get to enjoy writing in my references to the stories that I love, and working real, published references with works of my own invention and real, unpublished, references to those of my friends…

Next up was a present from Eleanor. A preliminary feel around the edges told Kathryn it was a book; and a slim hardback at that. She peeled back the tape and unfolded the wrapping. The cover struck her immediately. It was a black and white photograph with some selective tinting of a field in autumn with a dark silhouette of a hemlock stalk set against a misty, smokey background and some faint blurs that could be people. J. Rawson’s Book of Essays & Stories – the title and author were blended into one.

‘She works in one of the university libraries in Wren Hoe, I think,’ said Eleanor.

Kathryn nodded, unable to take her gaze away from the picture.

‘I’ve read a couple of bits in it,’ continued Eleanor, ‘Thought of you – Rawson evidently shares your same passion for old myth and reworking stories which she then talks about along with other books in her essays.’

Kathryn opened the beautifully bound and typeset book, leafing slowly through the pages to the contents list.

‘There’s a brilliant essay on Diana Wynne Jones, and then her own version of Tam Lin – you’ve got to read The Hyacinth Girl first.’

52001 / 80000 words. 65% done!

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