A few people have remarked that hubski is a convergence of people delving into their own reading for their own personal projects and I really dig that about this community. I am curious though, about the research side of it.
I've had exchanges with several individuals, usually in regard to procrastination and/creativity about how they sometimes feel like they get sidetracked into lines of inquiry. I do too. At the moment though, I'm in what I feel like is a particularly generative phase, one which I hope to sustain. As social media is about sharing and indeed, social interactions are about sharing things, I wonder what lines of research people are diving into at the moment.
I've posted drafts of poems before and a huge part of that is research or at the very least, wondering about things and seeking answers or glimmers thereof. At the moment, I haven't restarted my computer in over a week as I don't want to lose the thread, as it were. I know that I can bookmark my tabs, but honestly I've got innumerable folders of such threads of research that I will be unlikely to return to any time soon.
At the moment I'm looking into a number of things, but most noticeably etymology. Poetry is all about making connections in some fashion, as are most other creative endeavors. I'm hoping to get some dialogue going as people see the threads of things others are working on that they might find interesting for their own work. So what are the threads of research you are following? And if you care to name it, what's the project? Mine are all related to generating drafts of poems.
Etymology stuff:
Hymen <---NSFW unless you're in the medical field (it's a diagram, but still)
and from there, "Pollution Priapism" (no hits)
Other stuff:
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6), by Havelock Ellis
I feel like I always have a few projects going or at least knocking around in my head as "Projects I Should Work On".
Right now my fore-most project is making game review/playthrough videos. So right now my researching is basically how to use the video capture/editing software I've acquired (TechSmith's Camtasia Studio 8). And also watching lots of gaming YouTube channels to see what is popular, what kinds of things other vloggers do that I like and what I don't like. So far I've made a one minute long video that's just a bunch of clips of games with stock music. But it makes me really excited! I didn't expect to like it so much.
A secondary project is that I am trying to sort out the garden of the house we just bought. It's just starting to be winter so it's a good time to start digging up beds and re-doing things. Unfortunately, there's so much stuff going on in our garden right now! I don't know if some of the stuff is weeds or intentionally planted (having lived in the Midwest of the States my whole life a lot of the plant-life in NZ is very exotic to me). So I'm doing plant research and researching when to plant the vegetables and fruits I want to grow. I bought a few books at the local bookstore - one of them is really great, *Companion Planting* by Brenda Little, that is specific to NZ.
This is the good thing about being unemployed - I have so much time for personal projects!