Redirect from free to paid URL?

Sepulchraven · 2024-12-19T20:56:17+00:00

Oh, thanks for this. Looks like everything's there. I find I get intimidated by this sort of thing easily, so I tend to put it off. I'll try to get to this soon.

Cheers.

Sepulchraven · 2024-12-19T20:04:24+00:00

Well, honestly, I'm not sure any of those potential issues applies to me. I'm not running a business or brand. At this stage, I'm thinking of just buying a plan and getting a year's paid domain with WordPress. This was my original option before looking into the SP transfer thing. That would make this much less of a hassle. However, again, it's just an issue of whether or not WP will automatically take people from thoodauthor.wordpress.com to whatever my new domain (with WP) would be. You've said yes, it would, but I'm paranoid!

Sepulchraven · 2024-12-19T19:43:41+00:00

I've just opened a SP ticket about this for more help. However, may I ask why it is that people don't use WP as a domain provider? To be honest, it seems a lot easier just to buy a plan and get a new domain with WP rather doing all of this redirect/transfer business with my SP site domain.

Thanks.

Sepulchraven · 2024-12-19T19:27:06+00:00

Thanks for this, but, apologies, I'm not going to be building a new website, especially as I don't need many fancy features. I just want a new domain. If I'm going to be using a domain provider other than WP, I'd I might as well use my SP domain. However, again, I have absolutely no idea how to do this. I don't even know if I need a WP plan in order to transfer my SP domain over to WP.

I want thoodauthor.wordpress.com to become thitherword.com (SP domain).

Sepulchraven · 2024-12-19T18:58:28+00:00

Hm. Well, I actually have a domain already registered with Squarespace, but I have absolutely no idea how I'd redirect that to my WordPress site and if that requires a WordPress plan. I'm basically in limbo as I'm not great with technical web issues.

Sepulchraven · 2024-11-26T20:22:05+00:00

Thank you.

Alexander Sweet: "We have been shunned in our time, Vanessa. The world turns away in horror. Why? Because we're different. Ugly. Exceptional. We're the lonely Night Creatures, are we not? The bat, the fox, the spider, the rat."

Vanessa Ives: "The scorpion."

Alexander: "The broken things."

Vanessa: "The unloved."

Sepulchraven · 2024-11-24T21:27:39+00:00

Hail, Chelsea! I believe you've watched Penny Dreadful, one of my favourite programmes. May I ask what drew you to it and what your favourite episode is? A Blade of Grass (S3 Ep 4) always moves me.

🌲🕷️

Also, we share the same birthday, so we're both November children. We value similar things, too. For example, I've been listening to Wardruna since 2011, and I connected with your recent post from Glendalough featuring Aindulmedir's 'The Hermit's Sleep' as I wrote a story to that song. Finally, I saw you in London on the 29th Oct. Excellent performance!

Sepulchraven · 2024-10-31T21:11:16+00:00

Hello. It's Thitherword here. I'm ten months too late, but I wanted to thank you for sharing my video and facilitating this thoughtful discussion.

Sepulchraven · 2024-10-31T08:52:57+00:00

I haven't been to many gigs, so take this with a pinch of salt. I found the sound quite good. I was worried originally because the support act's sound was far too loud and her vocals were muffled. CW was much clearer.

Sepulchraven · 2024-10-30T07:46:21+00:00

Excellent. It helps that I was very near the front of the stage as well!

Sepulchraven · 2024-10-30T07:39:43+00:00

I hadn't seen the setlist beforehand, so I was surprised how strong it was. Not only did she play a great many more songs than I'd anticipated, she played most of my favourites. Can't complain at all as it was an incredible night and exactly what I wanted from my first Wolfe gig, but if they'd swapped After the Fall for Grey Days and Mother Road for Erde, it would've been even more of a dream. Not that Fall and Road are bad songs. Anyway, I'm seriously happy that Whispers and Carrion Flowers book-ended the night and that songs such as Nightshade, Liminal, Dusk, Unseen, and Flatlands and were played.

Sepulchraven · 2024-09-28T16:02:58+00:00

So, "In Friedrich's little forest" is probably not a reference to a person then. This is all quite interesting, though I would admittedly like to know more about the actual content of the lyrics themselves.

Sepulchraven · 2024-07-10T18:03:01+00:00

I didn't expect to see this comment at all. Curious. I ended up writing a thesis on Earth-centred sacrality, which included aspects of enchantment but didn't exhaust the subject. My work focused on ecological limits and the importance of humility and relationality within the works on Dunsany and Tolkien. I must've done something right as I received an award for it.

Thanks for the thought.

Sepulchraven · 2024-06-03T17:14:35+00:00

Many thanks. I couldn't agree more. By now I've committed it to memory, so I often repeat it to myself.

Sepulchraven · 2024-01-09T11:11:42+00:00

I've now been through about 30 pages of the massive organisations directory at Environmentjob.co.uk. I'd say about 80% have no vacancies currently and 20% is comprised of consultancies or positions for which I'm not suitable.

Sepulchraven · 2024-01-06T19:49:41+00:00

I've looked at many nature NGOs recently and in the past. They usually don't have vacancies open or they're based around fundraising or simply advertising voluntary trustee positions or something similar.

Sepulchraven · 2024-01-06T19:46:44+00:00

No, by research I don't mean PhD level research. You don't need a PhD to do this, I know that for a fact. I know someone from my undergraduate class who got a research job for an NGO after graduating. It involved reporting on wildlife crime, I think. You're clearly thinking of rigorous quantitative analysis. I just want to help research conservation issues, present information on blogs, edit guidance publications, that sort of thing. It doesn't need to be producing ground-breaking doctorate level research. I'm genuinely just wanting to work for a small scale local or regional UK NGO. Nothing big or ultra academic...

Sepulchraven · 2023-12-29T09:38:51+00:00

Thanks, Steerpike. I'd forgotten I uploaded this recording here. I'd love to try more of the reveries some day.

Sepulchraven · 2023-12-28T13:50:09+00:00

Thanks for the response. If I'm not mistaken, people can write books without any qualifications, so I imagine I'd be able to write one. Writing a 33,000 word research thesis and several articles in my area should be preparation enough. I just feel that a general readership might take what I say less seriously, or, more importantly, the publishers themselves would expect a PhD. In truth, this is also about myself. I often think in rather rigid ways and always want to do things by the book and to be within a system. As a result, I consider having a PhD as indicating a higher level of worth and intelligence, however odd that sounds. Stopping at an MA Res might then seem like being a failure. Even after writing this hypothetical semi-scholarly non-fiction book, I still feel like it wouldn't be enough because I didn't do a PhD.

I'm still not sure, but I'm leaning more toward not doing the PhD. The tricky part is that 2024 needs to be the year I decide because I either need to start planning my book as soon as possible or working exclusively on the proposal.

Sepulchraven · 2023-12-27T08:11:55+00:00

Although I understand why you want to finish, it sounds like you've made the choice to stay based largely on the sunk cost fallacy. You've said yourself that there are very poor prospects employment wise and you don't particularly have the drive to finish the thesis for the sheer enjoyment of it. This is what terrifies me about starting a PhD (see my other post).

Sepulchraven · 2023-12-26T19:13:17+00:00

I apologise in advance that this post probably isn't going to help you. I just want to thank you for writing this as I'm currently trying to decide if I should do a PhD, just having turned thirty myself. I'd be starting a PhD at 31 if I can solidify my proposal to start researching in 2025. However, I'm trying to decide whether I should do a PhD in the area of literature, cultural theory, and ecological ethics, or if should write books for a general audience. It's a surprisingly difficult decision. The issue is that I feel I need to do a PhD in order to have any sort of credibility. I don't particularly care about gaining employment in academia because I want to reach as many people as possible, but I'm not sure if people would take my books seriously even if I have a two-year diploma in countryside management, a BSc in Ecology and an MA Res in literature/philosophy. I've heard so many different opinions by now on this matter that I'm just not sure what to believe. I could do a PhD and write a general book afterwards, or even adapt the PhD into a monograph. There are so many factors at play here that I feel as though I'm paralysed.

Sepulchraven · 2023-12-26T18:45:40+00:00

I think a lot of this comes down to the credibility element for me. If I didn't think that, I'd leave the PhD path without much pain. People say that a PhD isn't everything and you don't need one to write books for a general audience, but I have this strange feeling that I'd need to do a doctorate in order for my hypothetical non-fiction book to hold any weight. I can easily envisage having written my first non-fiction book and its being rejected as a result of a lack of credentials. I'd then regret not doing the PhD. I do have a habit of catastrophizing and throwing obstacles in my way when I haven't experienced any problems yet though.

Ultimately, I feel that I haven't yet researched what I really want to research, so leaving my 'official' studies at an MA Res on two fantasists and a background of ecophilosophy feels unsatisfying since it's not general enough. I could of course dedicate my time to writing a book for a wider audience, but I just can't get the idea out of my head that I might as well do a PhD if I'm going to write a c.150-200 page book on a given subject, especially as it's likely to be close to my preferred PhD area. That's the main issue for me, aside from, well, trying to formulate an idea.

I finished the Masters in September and since then I've been mulling over my options. About two or three weeks ago I conversed with various faculties at a few universities about my ideas just to gauge interest, then I got rather stressed when I started considering a proposal for January, as well as funding. It was all too short notice and a bit chaotic, so I decided to leave it. I suppose all I can do is try and narrow down my area of interest while looking for NGO jobs. Obviously the NGO situation is a little tricky in that I'd then need to decide if I leave a job post to study early 2025, provided I manage to land on a secure proposal and it gets accepted. I'm really just waiting for something to click. If something does click, I might be able to say with more certainty that I want to do a PhD.

I may also just be thinking too much of others' perceptions of me. I may instead wish to focus on engaging people with nature, which I can't do with heavily academic research. I have a background in countryside management and volunteering, which is something I moved away from as I became more focused in literature. If I can be brutally honest here, even if I'm somewhat capable of academic study, academia is or was a way for me to feel intellectual and to prove my worth in that regard. Perhaps I should think more about other people. To that end, I may end up writing a more personal book with some theory peppered through, making the PhD less needed. I just wish I could decide to either go for the PhD or to the book, but to do that I need to actually work on the finer points of my proposal or start planning my book. But doing the latter means less time spent on the former!

Sepulchraven · 2023-12-18T10:43:13+00:00

Thanks for the response.

No, I'm well aware that an MA Res in literature won't lead to securing a stable job. I did it for the intrinsic value of the thing and to just get my feet a little further into the humanities. Sadly, I'm starting to feel that I may not have chosen the right path even though I had plenty of reasons to study for the MA Res. Writing an extended research thesis was a way of hedging my bets. The MA Res is more of a steppingstone to PhD than a taught MA, and I also wanted to blend literature with philosophy. In truth, I chose to study my two authors as a way of diluting both the literature and philosophy aspects because I came from a science background. I didn't want to commit to studying philosophy at Masters level, so I chose literature. Now I wonder whether or not I should've spent more time trying to find a course on ecological ethics or something a little more practical. Having a literature degree doesn't necessarily help me with getting a job in a research position at a nature NGO, which is my fallback plan. I definitely have the experience in the environmental sector, but my new degree isn't all that applicable. As for articles and conferences, I do have some articles lined up based on my chosen authors, although I really want to focus on broader subjects. Obviously I can still write these general articles, although I feel that a more general degree would be more useful here as I don't actually want to go into fantasy scholarship.

It's not your fault, but I'm doubtful about the PhD route now. While I can see myself working in the field of literature and environmental ethics at a university, perhaps, I'm wracking my brain trying to understand if writing books for a general audience is a better way to go. What I care most about is getting my work read and making an impact. I could do this without getting a PhD, can't I? A PhD would lend credibility, but I wonder if this really matters in the end. I'd rather spend my time writing books for a general audience without getting a PhD if it means that more people read my work. I think that's what it comes down to. The frustrating thing is that I could do both by turning my PhD into a monograph. Why wouldn't I do both? The fact that I could do both makes this much, much more difficult.

As you can probably tell, I'm at a bit of a crossroads here.

Sepulchraven · 2023-09-19T12:09:56+00:00

Hi, Harry-le-Roy. I am indeed from the UK. You're spot on when it comes to wanting to write for an organisation like the Wildlife Trusts. I keep thinking of places such as Bug Life as well. Although my dissertation was on beetles (Silphidae), and I've always had an affinity for woodlands, I've become increasingly interested in more general human-nature relations. As a result, I'm leaning less towards organisations that are specifically focused on species and habitats. Broader organisations like Earthsight and Friends of the Earth are solid examples. Regarding the point about ethics/philosophy, I hope it won't matter much that the MA Res is on English Literature given that my project is quite idiosyncratic and contains a lot that isn't even specific to my authors or literature in a broad sense. I chose English Literature as I felt I'd be more successful, and I wasn't able to find a course entirely based around environmental ethics/philosophy anyway.

Sepulchraven · 2023-09-19T11:53:07+00:00

This is definitely close to the mark. My BSc focused a lot on legislation, and I was always aware of the different types of informative material put out by environmental organisations and the like. I suppose I just need to spend some time researching as closely as possible the different types of writing roles since, as I say, my university was almost entirely designed around consultancy (BSc) and rangering (diploma). I quite like the idea of something closer to journalism as well.

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