Frustrations

[kiya]

I want to write theology. I want to have it all spilling out, all the glorious shape of it, all the things about the way I approach things, if only so there's a school of thought out there that says it so people can argue with it, something out there that has something coherent and systematic and looking at the whole thing. And I don't know how the fuck I'd get it published if I wrote it - it's not magical enough to toss at Immanion, I think - but I want it like it's spilling out my pores. Only I don't know where to start. What's the beginning? I have all these pieces, these shapes of things, the explanation behind this ritual, the exploration of this concept, nature of names, nature of souls, the three faces of chaos, the gods in the universe, people in the universe, all these things, but what's the first thread? Where do I try to tell people to start? (Zep Tepi, always Zep Tepi, but.)

I want my foot to stop hurting. Some of the swelling from the pregnancy seems to have - at our best guess - separated the callus on part of my right heel from the rest of the skin, which produces sudden-scream levels of pain when manipulated incorrectly.

I want ... food to look like food again. Everything is as appealing and foodlike as grass, which is profoundly frustrating. I snack, mostly because I know I ought to input caloric stuff, but it's ... sort of desultory.

I want to not have to be up at ungodly in the morning to go interview a pediatrician. At least I get to go back to bed afters.

Comments

[lupagreenwolf.livejournal.com]

I might be able to take a look at the manuscript and figure out where might be a good publisher to pitch it to.

[kiya]

That would be lovely, if you'd be willing whenever such a thing got done.

I have a partially-written manuscript that I'll be pitching to Immanion when it's done, too, so it's not like I'm neglecting the home team. ;)

[luellon.livejournal.com]

Weisner?

Lulu? (Maybe that's not what you are looking for as it is self-publishing)

I don't know where to send my various religious/academic books to.

[artan]

The beginning is where you start. Upon later revisions it may no longer be the beginning. Likely the true beginning isn't the best place to start, since it can require a significant amount of foundational work in other stuff to understand.

Sometimes it's easier to start in the middle with something that people are likely to be more familiar with and expand from there.

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree that the way to go with big messy subjects is to begin in the middle, near something that people who know nothing about it can recognise.