Posted on: Fri, May 15 2009 6:40 PM
Posted by: KatDucDuk
Posts: 38
The following is the update I sent out to the Kissability mailing
list on April 30, 2009. (Yes! There's an official mailing list!
Contact me if you'd like to be on it; I'll also continue posting the
mailings here.)
Hello, everybody,
I'm afraid I don't have anything very new or
specific to report, because most of my work on the project this month
has consisted of copying and pasting everyone's
questionnaire answers into a single document and color-coding them, so that I can easily compare and contrast the answers and search for particular
quotes and
topics.
Why has this taken such a long time? Well, in part it's because I
have a full-time day job, so I can work on Kissability stuff only on
evenings and weekends. I appreciate your patience in light of this
fact. But, more importantly, it's because I'm working with nearly
150,000 words of your input. The document is
342 pages!
Of course, as I wrote last month, the
Kissability book will not simply consist of all of your questionnaire answers-- I'll organize many of them into short
chapters,
in different formats and on different topics. As much as possible,
I'll use your own original words; I'm even planning to title each
chapter with a fitting quote from a respondent. So far, I have five
specific
ideas for chapters, and more ideas will arise as I work.
I've also come into (online) contact with several
more people, in addition to the questionnaire respondents, whom I would like to contribute to the project through more specific
interviews, because they have unique perspectives or levels of expertise on particular topics.
Have a great month!
Katherine Duke
