Seeking help with a front-page post

[brainwane]

I'm pretty interested in the life of Dilip Singh Saund and am working on a front-page MetaFilter post about him. infini posted partially about him in 2012 but I have found some interesting materials to link to that I think weren't in that post. I would appreciate help framing and editing what I have.

A nonprofit hosts an instance of Etherpad, a collaborative document-editing platform, for anyone to use, so I've started an Etherpad to use in working on this post. There you can see the links and rough sequence I have so far.

I worry that I have a tendency to go on too long and cram too much stuff in to a post on the blue, so I would welcome "here's what I think are the most important/interesting parts here" comments so I can be more concise. Or "this is all great! Making a post that is everything including the kitchen sink is fine!" would also be welcome. Or, if you want to take over and write and post it to MeFi yourself, go ahead! Just speak up here and say you're going to do that, and credit me somewhere in the post.

Comments

[sciatrix]

That's right--it's like any other kind of creative endeavor; I think the best thing to do is to just get in the habit of trying to practice throwing stuff out into the world and seeing how it does, and viewing errors as just information to teach you what to try to fail better next time.