Scribal Handbook Was [Scriptoris] Re:originals

[Kimberly Koch]

I asked Lasair to take over the project while I was in
office, but we didn't finish it during my tenure. I
think Annais asked Hillary to do something with it
while she was Signet.

s

--- Franchesca Havas <ches at io.com> wrote:
> Yes, and, no.
> 
> We started one a while ago when an out of kingdom
> laurel came here. She
> got it started then she kinda retired and we never
> really finished it. I
> think we all still have copies of the last draft in
> our files.
> 
> Many of us took our individual chapters and have
> since published them as
> stand alone articles.
> 
> The last time we worked on it Sara was going to do
> something extra and
> then approve it for the webpage, then the office
> changed hands and we
> never heard anything about it again.
> 
> I think that it just got put to the side in favor of
> more important work.
> I bet that it is most likely finished and we just
> have to gift Sara with a
> few select items on her menu of desired delicacies
> to munch on to keep her
> beautiful new figure as incentive to get it out and
> published. :)
> 
> Chiara
> 
> >
> > It IS incredibly intimidating to see some of the
> original scrolls that
> > our kingdom scribes produce.  I have definitely
> felt scared off from
> > taking on more, because, although I can design
> most things, my
> > calligraphy is only passable, and I am still
> working on getting my
> > painting skills up to par. When the rest of the
> Abby members are busy
> > with other work,  I do these myself and the end
> product is not nearly as
> > good.  ( The advantage to working in a group is
> that everyone does thier
> > best thing and you get something none of them
> could have done  as well
> > on thier own)
> >
> > The standard of what is expected for an original
> seems to have increased
> > to a point where it is difficult to  commit to a
> commision or request
> > when you know that another scribe out there would
> do a better (more
> > elaborate) job of it, if the person waited for
> them to be free.  As the
> > artist, you don't want the recipient to be
> disappointed that thier
> > scroll isn't as "cool" as one they saw presented
> to Count Whosits in
> > court.  And as the recipient, would you want to be
> the first one to get
> > the "simpler" original?   We have scribed
> ourselves into a corner, in a
> > way.
> >
> > I think that more classes on original scroll
> creation would be a help,
> > but we have to make sure not to drop those that
> show interest.  When I
> > started to find out about how to do originals (
> and charter masters) ,
> > the information was very hard to come by, until I
> happened on Sara
> > Penrose at an event and she took  the time to tell
> me what types of
> > things I needed to do. Luckily, shortly after
> that, I found the Abby and
> > started to work with them, which really helped my
> learning curve.
> > Originals can be very scary to try to take on by
> yourself, even without
> > the added pressure of expectations.
> >
> > I think that one of the best things that we have,
> as far as information
> > goes, is this list.  It is very helpful to have
> other scribes at you
> > fingertips when you get stumped on something.
> >
> >  Is there a handbook, or article out there that is
> a good introduction
> > to
> > the steps of making an original that we can post
> on the site, or print
> > off to give to those that show interest?
> >
> > Nicolaea
> >
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