In which she just might tear out her hair

[zeborah]

O hai thar Internets, I need vital informations! Imagine a pictorial stained glass window for a church, about 1x2 metres. How long would it, in Denmark in the 16th century, have taken to do each of:
a) source coloured glass (or might one have it lying around)?
b) cut said glass into appropriately shaped bitties?
c) join the bitties together and have a glorious window?

I'm grasping at straws in my chronology and if I get inconvenient answers I'll have to rewrite this scene again from scratch.

I mean, I already have to write it again from scratch, because the conversations started in the wrong order, but I'll have to write it again from scratch without a stained glass window, and that stained glass window was going to merge a couple of plot strands, a couple of theme strands, and a whole heap of OMG PRETTY.

Just so you know why I'm going to be bald in a day or two when my artist friend comes back from her glass class with informations for me.

Update #1: Thanks all, I'm growing increasingly resigned to Plan A being the stuff of deals with the devil and, on the upside, increasingly optimistic about my new shiny Plan C potentially working. (Plan B was unsatisfactory.)

Update #2: (written at the same time as update #1) Semi-related revelations force me to admit that I now need to rewrite part of the penultimate scene. "One step forward, two steps back" strikes again!

Comments

[gwyn_bywyd]

you appear to be extremely relevant to my interests. Which I guess works vice versa too

I'm frankly a little unnerved. Unnerved and delighted! Thank you once again, Dreamwidth!

As for your book, I will have to echo the previous commenter and say "Wow ... just wow." I'm pretty sure I DO know a window with a Last Supper under a Crucifixion, but not with the wonderful lining up of the chalice and all that symbolism. Because surely I would have noticed that. SURELY?! It is about two hours drive away but now I have a yearning for a road-trip (Reality is bound to hit and I can find a parishioner to tell me!)

As to if they would let him try this, I don't think it is so far beyond the pale. I guess it depends somewhat on if he is a "master craftsman" (ie must he answer to anyone on the making side of things) and his relationship with the bishop or whatever ecclesiastical authority has commissioned/authorised the window. But surely they would go "WOW, yeah!" too! :-)

And this is a sequel you say? *trots off to figure out how to get paws on first book*

[irinarempt.pip.verisignlabs.com]

*trots off to figure out how to get paws on first book*

Er, ask zeborah and she'll send you the MS for beta-reading?

[zeborah]

Ooh, I'd love to hear about that window if you find out more.

Oh yeah. <makes mental note to add into the scene the parish priest - what's-his-name, I've got his name somewhere, anyway that guy - and the Bishop of Roskilde too, he'd probably still be hanging around town>

I should, um, really get back to submitting that book to publishers and agents. I did to a couple but they didn't want it, and then life's kept me busy enough it's been enough trouble just writing; and between writing and submitting, it's the writing that keeps me sane, so... :-)

But in the meantime I'd be happy to email you the manuscript - just on condition that you tell me anything confusing/boring/annoying about it, and/or any way I could tweak it to make it better. :-)

[gwyn_bywyd]

Huh, can't figure out how to put a picture into a comment. But you can find a kinda blurry and not big enough picture of the window I'm talking about here:

http://www.stjamesanglicanchurchmorpeth.com.au/files/3093240/uploaded/Window.jpg

I can't begin to imagine the hassle it would be persuading people to publish a book. Let alone that heart and soul have been poured into it, so rejection is not so easy to shrug off. But I would love to read it :-)

[zeborah]

Oh, the pretty! (I use raw html, which would be: <img src="http://www.stjamesanglicanchurchmorpeth.com.au/files/3093240/uploaded/Window.jpg" /> But I've been writing raw html for close to 15 years so it's second nature.)

I'm actually okay with rejection. Though it's easier with short stories, where I know there's dozens of potential markets and have got a semi-routine about submit-get rejection-resubmit, than with novels where... it's mostly that I'm not as familiar and practised with what markets there are, so I have to think more, so procrastination sets in.

Anyway, I shall send it to you. Just let me know what email address to use? (I'm at zeborah (at) gmail.com)