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littlemanpoet · 07-09-2002, 10:32 AM

Lothiriel: a version of excel worked great for the categorization, and then it was just copy and paste to get it onto this. The most enjoyable part of it was actually rereading the entire thread and plunking down each one into multiple categories. The hardest part was deciding which categories to lump back together. For example, it would seem most reasonable to lump "sources" with "research and revising", but most of the mentions of sources were in the context of what inspired people, so it made the most sense to go that way.

I'm glad the index is (at least) agreeable to you all so far.

Surprising as it is to me, as I do a mental list of the fantasy I remember having read, there wasn't much by way of couples; the stuff I read seems to center on one lone hero. Friendships are rare, and in the one I remember vividly they ended up enemies (Lawhead's Albion series, which is really good, by the way).

Thanks for the stiff ones, ST. They felt real good after all that masochistic endeavor (still worth the effort, I think).

Oops on the fanfic mistake. I really don't spend much time there and assumed....I'm really looking forward to reading some of your stuff at some point, ST.....even if it's fresh off the brainmatter.

07-09-2002, 10:32 AM	#460
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Lothiriel: a version of excel worked great for the categorization, and then it was just copy and paste to get it onto this. The most enjoyable part of it was actually rereading the entire thread and plunking down each one into multiple categories. The hardest part was deciding which categories to lump back together. For example, it would seem most reasonable to lump "sources" with "research and revising", but most of the mentions of sources were in the context of what inspired people, so it made the most sense to go that way. I'm glad the index is (at least) agreeable to you all so far. Surprising as it is to me, as I do a mental list of the fantasy I remember having read, there wasn't much by way of couples; the stuff I read seems to center on one lone hero. Friendships are rare, and in the one I remember vividly they ended up enemies (Lawhead's Albion series, which is really good, by the way). Thanks for the stiff ones, ST. They felt real good after all that masochistic endeavor (still worth the effort, I think). Oops on the fanfic mistake. I really don't spend much time there and assumed....I'm really looking forward to reading some of your stuff at some point, ST.....even if it's fresh off the brainmatter.