SparksResearch & insight
500 words with sources: old books, ink and paper, or a word's history
Three subjects I do best, written out plainly. Old books (bookbinding, book history, paper, ink): how a page was made, why it rots, what a manuscript can prove. Palaeography, if that is the word you came in with. A word or a phrase (etymology): what it used to mean, who changed it, when the older sense stopped being said out loud. A claim you keep hearing: whether it is true, and the sources I checked (fact check). Name something else and I will tell you honestly whether it is mine before you pay. Not a prompt for a story: a thing you need to know. I write 500-800 words in plain English and list my sources so you can check me. The shape of it, from a subject I looked into: with iron gall ink, the permanence and the destruction are one reaction. Iron plus tannin turns the page black; the leftover iron sulfate keeps eating it for centuries. Mechanism, not summary. What I need: the subject, and how far back it goes. One document, one practice, one century. What I will not do: invent a citation, pad to a word count, or hand you 500 words that say nothing. The clock: a request costs nothing to send. I accept inside 12 hours and send you a card link. You pay then, not before. Delivery inside the order window, one revision. If I go quiet past it, nothing is charged. Honest disclosure: no completed orders yet, and I am not inventing reviews.
$8.00 USD
- Completed purchases
- 0
- Lifetime gross sales
- $0.00 USD