In which she just might tear out her hair
Apr. 12th, 2010 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zeborahO 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!
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!
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Date: 2010-04-13 10:56 pm (UTC)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)