Outside the Comfort Zone

[faustus]

I would say that in the last ten years I've only written a couple of unsolicited articles or books - they have either been projects I've initiated or been invited to take part in, or I've been offered a book contract. I suspect I haven't gone to a non-specialist conference in the same period - save for departmental ones where collegiality outweighs sense. I can't remember the last paper I delivered that wasn't genre related (Delany and porn in the mid-1990s?).

I've just stepped outside the box and sent off an abstract about comedy to a conference on comedy. I feel twitchy, but it is a big world out there.

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Neat!