h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

For a long time I'd stopped writing for h2g2. I only wrote a few entries each year for the last few years. But I decided a few months back to take a break from sub-editing and to try some writing again. One of my entries is on the Front Page today!

I spent some time going through all my unedited entries, and I've found that I have the following:

2 in Peer Review
5 being fairly actively worked on
169 that I started but abandoned

I couldn't believe it was as many as that. Some of them may become entries in the future, but most of them will just sit there. I should go through them and either beef them up or delete them, but I don't know if I'll actually do this.

OK, a quick trawl through those 169 came up with a Goulash recipe which was ready, so it's in Peer Review as well.

Could some of them become collaborative or maybe someone else could take over in a sort of Flea Market rescue?

When my course has finished - next summer - I shall use the time I have been using for learning and write up the ideas I have been hatching - some of them for 10 years now! There is so much scope for entries on Germany, culinary, historical, touristy, cultural...

I never thought of sending my entries directly to the flea market before. I'd post the titles in Challenge, but I don't think anyone else ever looks at it.

Any musical ones I could collaborate on?

Here's the full list: A600887

Music is 135 to 145 or thereabouts. Some of these are just ideas.

Definitely eclectic. The green star one looks almost ready to go? I'm sure you & galaxybabe could rapidly polish it off - probably within peer review.

I'm glad you're writing again Gnomon

I'm impressed with that list I write my articles offline and I have a long list of articles I want to write, as well as some started but unfinished, some of them are ten years old.

I remember a green star from the constellation project. Zubeneschamali (beta Librae) a blue-white dwarf, but to the naked eye it appears to shine green. Here's an interesting webpage about the star: http://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/libras-zubeneschamali-the-only-green-star

GB

My brother's h2g2 name is Zubeneschamali. I must ask him has he observed it and what colour he thought it was.

"Slide Rules" has been picked. That's another one moved along the production line towards publication.

I still have two in Peer Review "Mozart's Clarinet Concerto" (now with added musical examples) and "Prats-de-Mollo".

I'm working on "Number Systems Through the Ages" and it is nearly finished. It needs a little tidying and the section on Mayan numbers to be written.

I've a couple more I'm working on, but they are awaiting research which may not take place for another month or two.

One way of filling up Peer Review with entries (which is a good thing) is to write short ones. Recipes in particular are short and are very popular with the Readers - the hidden 99% of h2g2 users who never sign up, never comment but are constantly checking on how to cook rice and how to wire a plug, how to make sloe gin. I'm not a good cook, and I've already put any recipes I'm good at into entries. I must think about all the little things I know that could be put into "How To" entries.

The composer JS Bach was asked to write some simple pieces of music for children or beginners to perform. He produced some very challenging and intricate pieces. He said that he started off simple, but there was just so much he wanted to say in the music, and it got more and more complex. I feel a bit the same about writing. I can't imagine a simple article about "How to Hang a Picture" because there are so many variations, so many different things you have to do depending on what you find when you drill into the wall, how heavy the picture is and so on.

Your too productive! Or just better than some of us, at actually finishing off entrys... I've at least half a dozen, so* nearly done... though a few of them need a lot of actual content put in them, I kinda at least know what* content I want to put in them... I just must* try finish them, as I've maybe another four to six, that are just in my head as ideas at the moment, and if I start them too, first, I'll never* get round t to finishing off the others I msut do the cheese One I said I'd do ages ago but that's proving a bit tricky; wanting a central 'cheese' entry to link to a a lot of the already existing entrys on particular/individual cheeses, but not repeating too much of the information already in those entrys ... a sort of 'generic 'cheese'' entry I just never seem to find the time, or time I can concentrate to do it... I useually end up thinking about doing it, when its suddenly so late I can't really concentrate enough to write properly