Azara

Azara

Thoughts on the Edited Guide

I took a couple of years' break from submitting entries to PR, though I was commenting on and off during that time. Surveying my entries after that gap, I've crystallised some of my feelings about the Edited Guide and PR:

The entries I'm least impressed by are the ones you could call 'mainstream':

Verdi, the Flowers of the Burren, Bram Stoker. I think h2g2 is at its best (compared to Wikipedia) when we have entries that are either quirky and unusual, or that make lots of unexpected cross-connections. I think that Castrati, Sir Boyle Roche, and Sheela-na-Gigs are eyecatching becuase the subjects are a bit off-beat, while Amber, the Ash Tree, the Seven Deadly Sins and the Monument all make interesting or unexpected cross-connections.

So, now that I'm back writing, I intend to concentrate on the quirky or cross-connecting style of entry: I hope the ones I have in PR now (go and look!) will live up to expectations!

Edited Entries (23)

Opera

• Giuseppe Verdi
• The French Opera Tradition
• A History of Opera Illustrated
• Castrati in Opera Illustrated
• The Operatic Way of Death
• The Layout of a Traditional Opera House Illustrated

Ireland and Irish People

• Sheela-na-Gigs Illustrated
• The Fastnet Rock, County Cork, Ireland
• The Book of Kells
• The Strange Sayings of Sir Boyle Roche
• Lord Dunsany - Author
• The Flowers of the Burren, County Clare, Ireland
• Bram Stoker - Author

Nature

• Sloe Gin Illustrated
• Amber
• The Common Ash Tree
• Alabaster
• The Mines of Joachimsthal

Miscellaneous

• Roger Bacon and the Brazen Head
• The Wines of Tuscany, Italy
• The Seven Deadly Sins Illustrated
• The Monument to the Great Fire of London Illustrated with a film clip!
• The Hebrew Manuscripts of the Cairo Genizeh