"Work in Progress" is what James Joyce called his last "novel" over the course of the seventeen years of its creation. In the spirit of works in progress, welcome to James Joyce! Where are you from? What languages do you speak? Have you heard of the Iranian drink Hom? This word appears on page seven of Finnegans Wake. I want to get people's impressions of words like this (from a number of different linguistic backgrounds) to reconfigure the Wake as a communal work of fiction, another work in progress.