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May. 30th, 2008 04:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sophiaserpentiaWow, i haven't made a public post here in over two weeks.
I do have projects in the basement, though. A while back i wrote that i am not sure i have anything new to say about certain subjects - like religion. But what i've *already said*, especially about Gnosticism and early Christianity, deserves to be organized and presented.
For the longest time, i felt like i should organize it into a book. But this effort failed numerous times, for various reasons. First, i was never really sure how to structure it. No matter what point i picked as my starting point (which was always difficult), i had a hard time organizing it all into a straight line. Second, i had a lot of "mission creep" and self-doubt. I'd ask myself questions like, "Does the world really need another book about this?"
So i'm organizing the material on a wiki instead. That will solve the linearity problem, and will also solve the mission creep problem as well -- the wiki will be online no matter how "complete" it feels, or how much effort i feel like putting into it during any given month (if any), or whatever feels like the goal i want to accomplish with it at the time. Right now what i have over there is very sparse and rough, but it is starting to come into focus as i put more of the framework in place.
I do have projects in the basement, though. A while back i wrote that i am not sure i have anything new to say about certain subjects - like religion. But what i've *already said*, especially about Gnosticism and early Christianity, deserves to be organized and presented.
For the longest time, i felt like i should organize it into a book. But this effort failed numerous times, for various reasons. First, i was never really sure how to structure it. No matter what point i picked as my starting point (which was always difficult), i had a hard time organizing it all into a straight line. Second, i had a lot of "mission creep" and self-doubt. I'd ask myself questions like, "Does the world really need another book about this?"
So i'm organizing the material on a wiki instead. That will solve the linearity problem, and will also solve the mission creep problem as well -- the wiki will be online no matter how "complete" it feels, or how much effort i feel like putting into it during any given month (if any), or whatever feels like the goal i want to accomplish with it at the time. Right now what i have over there is very sparse and rough, but it is starting to come into focus as i put more of the framework in place.
