The VEI-8 series of posts is working out well here, behind the scenes.
To review, the first of three planned posts is up, and right now I’m going through weekly posts on eight of the nine active supervolcanoes listed in a paper by DeSilva and Self (one of those, on Aira Caldera, is up, too).
When the eight are done (as Sunday Morning Volcanoes), part 2 of the main series (on forecasting, etc.) will come, followed by a single post on Yellowstone that’s both part three of the main series and the ninth active supervolcano.
I had to mention all that first in order to explain why there might be some Sunday gaps along the way — not this weekend. That post is coming along well.
But each individual supervolcano is so interesting that I end up doing more reading on it than I had expected.
This is good in every way because it gives me more of a knowledge base to do the main blog post series and also is very useful to me in making an outline for the eventual eBook.
And I hope that you will find the details interesting and fun, too. The goal is for readers to enjoy each post but also to come away with more factual knowledge of real supervolcanoes.
It’s taking time, though. I haven’t made much progress yet in some of the projects mentioned in the last update. That’s fine because I know time will come for all that eventually once this writing focus is finished.
One thing I’ve learned is that, when you and your topic click, you keep with it until you’ve said it all because, if you don’t, it might not ever click again and that’s like running into a concrete wall. 😦
So I’m not going to fret about having something posted each and every calendar Sunday. They will come as described above, with no guest-video posts until this project is over.
Cats and canines, though? Absolutely!
What seems to work there is scheduling all Friday felines and Saturday-afternoon canids first and then devoting the rest of the month to the volcanoes.
I did not expect to spend my retirement hip deep in cats, dogs, and volcanoes (though there’s the big clue that I learned a medical vocabulary and then typed it at 100-plus words per minute for twenty-five years, until voice recognition software obsoleted medical transcriptionists).
But it’s fun!
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