[Main Blog Post] [Heathen Rosary] Draft "Hail Holy Forebears"

[jprussell]

I am so very, very close to having all of the bedes of the "Heathen Rosary" at least to a stead where you can say the whole thing, but the draft of the closing bede still feels a bit "flat," and so once again, I am asking for your help in working out what I might change about it.

Your thoughts on the "Hail Idun" and "All-Father" have been very worthwhile and truly helped them take shape, so even more so than usual, kindly share them on this one as well so I can have a full set of prayers I'm happy with and get to working out the "mysteries" to go with them.

Thanks ahead of time if you choose to share any and all thoughts, big or small.

Comments

[k_a_nitz]

Is that the right link?

[jprussell]

It will be :) The way I have things set up, I have to generate the dreamwidth post first to be able to include a link at the bottom of the webstead post, which means there's a window where this is up but that is not, and the link points to just the top of the webstead until that goes up.

The window is still open because I currently have my "publish" script set up to put every single post into the RSS feed, and every time I add a new one, it has to re-format the whole file (indenting is what takes a lot of time), and apparently the size of my whole webstead has started running into the limits of what my computer can do in a reasonable amount of time (actually, as I wrote this, it wrapped up, an hour later, so the link should work now). The indenting has been slow for a while now, but it's been a low priority to fix publishing process, though in the past couple of weeks, it's gotten way slower.

If you (or anyone else) cares about technical details: I write in org-mode in Emacs and use the org-export package with the ox-rss add-on to generate an RSS feed (that I'm sure no one currently uses). I like writing in org-mode because it's a plaintext markup format that is very readable even without a specialized editor, and Emacs is the nuclear-powered supercarrier of text editors, with tons of functionality. When I finish writing a post, I can publish it with a few keyboard shortcuts (and then sit and wait for the indenting to happen...). To fix it, I can either write some code to modify the RSS publishing to pre-pend the new post to the existing file, and just format that, or I can likely much more easily set a maximum number of most recent posts to include in the RSS. I've resisted the first because I'm not a great programmer and I know enough from prior experience to know it won't be as easy or fast as I feel like it should be, and I've resisted the latter because I used to prefer reading blogs via RSS readers and appreciated when I could access the full archive that way, rather than only the most recent stuff, and so I thought I'd extend the courtesy to anyone who shares that preference (likely a tiny population, and almost guaranteed none of them read my blog).

Anyhow, that's certainly way more than you care to know on the subject, and again, the main takeaway is the link works now!

Jeff