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posted by [personal profile] elanya at 02:14am on 30/11/2006 under , ,
I broke an honest 3000 words tonight, out of a max of 7500. I have my next few bits pretty well planned out. Then I can go into the archaeology, then look at pirates and so forth. I don't think I am as low on material as I worried I was. I am happy with my intro bits, and I am just hoping that i can remain so. I wish I had some more varied sources for the navy stuff, but really, someone compiled a bunch of really excellent sources and then dumped them in my lap in one gigantor awesome book, and I shouldn't really discount that... I just need to decide if I should count each excerpt from a primary source as an individual source (Smith, John. 1799. "Stuff About the Navy." In Z. Whatsisnutz (ed), Big Book of Navy Crap, 1998. Place: Publisher.) It isn't always clear who the authors are, or how i would even cite them, just because they are kind of weird documents. I'll think about it.

Anyway, ideally I need to write a little over 1100 words a day to meet the max by Sunday night. I did that today, and I only started writing around 7 and took a few decently long breaks, so it should be doable. As long as I don't get hung up on having to do new research...

Alright, bed time -_-
Music:: Rob Dougan - Speed Me Towards Death
Mood:: 'sleepy' sleepy
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posted by [identity profile] curtana.livejournal.com at 06:05pm on 30/11/2006
For footnotes/endnotes, I would treat each primary source as individual, the way you've done it. If it's not clear who the author is, you could always list it as "Stuff about the Navy", 1799, quoted in Big Book of Navy Crap" or something along those lines. For the bibliography, I would just list the Big Book of Navy Crap, unless it looks totally sparse and awful that way.

Good luck!
 
posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 06:35pm on 30/11/2006
The confusing bit is that I am using in-text referencing, not footnotes, because of the format I am working with (I basically had to pick a relevant journal and use that style). Footnotes are so much more logical :p
 
posted by [identity profile] tethys123.livejournal.com at 10:31pm on 30/11/2006
Hey chica, I learned this poem a very long time ago -- third or fourth grade, I think. But when you were talking about bees, I remembered it. Maybe you've heard it before, but I'm procrastinating, so I'm going to type it for you anyway! I don't know the title, so here goes:

This is the story of the little bee,
whose sex is very hard to see.
You cannot tell the He from She,
but He can tell. (And so can She.)
The busy bee is never still,
and hasn't time to take The Pill.
And that is why, (in times like these)
there are so many Sons of Bees!
 
posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 11:15pm on 30/11/2006
I have not heard that before, but it fill me with joy and delight :D
 
posted by [identity profile] tethys123.livejournal.com at 11:43pm on 30/11/2006
I'm glad! Oh, if you're bored, I updated my "paper" all the way through Commodus. It's not my fault -- really! My mom wanted me to read it to my dad, and I couldn't give him an incomplete story, now, could I?
 
posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 11:29pm on 30/11/2006
In exchange I give you.... this!

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