{"id":135,"date":"2014-12-09T10:23:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T16:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblionalia.info\/leah\/?p=135"},"modified":"2014-12-09T10:29:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T16:29:23","slug":"leahs-quick-draw-scribal-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2014\/12\/09\/leahs-quick-draw-scribal-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Leah’s Quick Draw Scribal Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Pean,<\/a>
Pean, a unicorn rampant contourny argent, on a chief invected Or two roses gules.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Remember those buttons<\/a>?<\/p>\n

They’re prizes for Leah’s Quick Draw Challenge.<\/p>\n

A while ago, Northshield Scribes had a Facebook discussion on what should be in the kingdom’s Scribal Handbook. One of the comments asked for instructions on how to decipher blazons in order to include a recipient’s heraldry on scrolls. \u00a0To answer this, I came up with the Quick Draw Challenge. \u00a0I’m all about having fun while learning, so the Quick Draw Challenge is a 24 hour “race” to decipher a blazon, draw the emblazon (the picture), and send it back to me – because the best way to get comfortable with blazonry is to practice.<\/p>\n

The challenge goes out twice a week – on Tuesdays and Thursdays – the Northshield Scribe’s list. I send out a blazon, and everyone has 24 hours to send me their entry. I’ve gotten emblazons scribbled on post-it notes, done up in MS Paint or Word (with the colors labeled). The unofficial motto of the challenge is “It doesn’t have to be pretty – it just has to be right!” The first person with a correct entry gets a button, but everyone who gets the emblazon correct get in a drawing for a copy of Masterpieces of Illumination, by Walther and Wolf<\/a>. Everyone who enters, whether correct or not, gets entered into a drawing for a satchel of scribal supplies. And if someone gets three buttons, they can exchange them for a paternoster.<\/p>\n

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After the 24 hour period is over, I email the list again with the correct answer, but I break the blazon down section by section to explain the WHY of it. Then I announce the winners of the challenge.<\/p>\n

The response so far has been pretty awesome. After five challenges, I’ve had 11 unique participants out of a total of 24. Well be doing this until 12th Night in Nordskogen (January 4th, 2015). After that, we’ll see where we are. I’m thinking of building a website for the challenge or finding a way to open it up to the whole Society. Maybe using MailChimp…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember those buttons? They’re prizes for Leah’s Quick Draw Challenge. A while ago, Northshield Scribes had a Facebook discussion on what should be in the kingdom’s Scribal Handbook. One of the comments asked for instructions on how to decipher blazons in order to include a recipient’s heraldry on scrolls. \u00a0To answer this, I came up … Continue reading “Leah’s Quick Draw Scribal Challenge”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[29,30,28],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4eTPU-2b","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}