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Let's see:

~~Write a 2000 word piece on PKD~~ (by a couple of weeks ago - a draft done, needs fact checking and an edit - I edited the complete rewrite today)
~~See Sarah Millican~~ (17 November)
~~Write 4000 words on PKD and philosophy~~ (18 November - by 1pm!)
Ten minute spiel on Sauvage Planete (18 November)
~~Muybridge and Turner Prize exhibitions~~ (19 November - and Whiteread)
~~See Chris Addison~~ (20 November)
~~Edit a 143,000 word PhD thesis~~ (21 November)
~~Mark 35+ 2,000 word essays~~ (22 November - over shot to 25 November)
~~Brendan Burns~~ (27 November)
Greg Davies (29 November)
Jeremy Hardy (30 November)
Write 20,000 words of a book (30 November)

So that's that, then. Time for a new to do list:

Greg Davies (29 November)
Jeremy Hardy (30 November)
Attend Sekrit Comedy Gig. Maybe (1 December)
Read Seminar 4 of The Sovereign and the Beast
Awkward Silence (2 December)
Mitch Benn (3 December)
Visit Chichester (4 December)
Jim Jefferies (9 December)
Write conference paper (10 December)
Jonathan Miller (10 December)
Giles Brandreth (18 December)
Who knows (25 December)
Write 20,000 words of a book (31 December)

Simples.

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Write a 2000 word piece on PKD (by a couple of weeks ago - a draft done, needs fact checking and an edit - this turned into a complete rewrite today)
~~See Sarah Millican~~ (17 November)
~~Write 4000 words on PKD and philosophy~~ (18 November - by 1pm!)
Ten minute spiel on Sauvage Planete (18 November)
~~Muybridge and Turner Prize exhibitions~~ (19 November - and Whiteread)
~~See Chris Addison~~ (20 November)
~~Edit a 143,000 word PhD thesis~~ (21 November)
~~Mark 35+ 2,000 word essays~~ (22 November - over shot to 25 November)
Brendan Burns (27 November)
Greg Davies (29 November)
Jeremy Hardy (30 November)
Write 20,000 words of a book (30 November)

Meanwhile I'm thinking about what is Sekrit Porject 1 (the single-author monograph) and Sekrit Porject 2 (themed film monograph), and what is the long-backburnered Comedy Porject (aka Sekrit Porject 3), when I had thoughts about werewolves.

The back story to this is reading Rob Latham's excellent Consuming Youth, on vampires and cyborgs, which I remember reading and thing, "Someone should do the same on werewolves." Indeed, I can only assume that just as Marx had written on vampires, someone had written on werewolves - although the only thing that sprang to mind was Freud's Wolfman. And I suspect there it lay, disregarded as an idea.

Now, thanks to the unintended consequences of an invitation to gatecrash from Brisingamen, I have an in to the book.

The book?

There is no way I am ready for Sekrit Porject 4.

On the other hand, it may well be a chapter of Sekrit Porject 2, if I can find a way to convinced myself it's sf.

No genelycology or anthropolycology without lyconomy.

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Spoilers ahoy - but I finally updated the Solar Flares blog, with posts on The Wanderground and The Man who Fell to Earth.

More should follow in rapid due course, and I'll post links each week.

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I've just submitted a book proposal that has been 99% done since this time last year. The final 1% took all year. (My middle name is prevarication.) Still, I caught two bleeding obvious omissions which no one who looked at the draft did.

The series editor is on leave. Bah.

I want to go ahead with this project in some form anyway, even if in twelve or more articles. Details to follow.

I dreamt another novel last night. Actually it was a graphic novel and seemed to be variation on my travel from a to b dream. I also dreamt making copious notes. Alas, however.

On the other hand a week or so back I dreamt a soiree involving

rozk,

kayxh,

lamentables and

abrinsky, followed by a visit to UoK's Templeman Library. As I stood at the desk, being refused entry,

abrinsky turned up with his SWAT team. You knew

abrinsky had a SWAT team, obviously.

* This probably isn't the plural of anti-climax. Nor is anti-climi.

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The Fantasy and Psychoanalyis chapter has reached the end of its first draft; the referencing is incomplete and i need to add a couple of facts, so anothe 500 words to go in at worst. There is an example I'd like to supplement or replace, but I need to get hold of a copy.

3,958 / 4,000
(99.0%)

I'll need to lose about four hundred words by tidying up. Sigh. It's too big!

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So... can anyone think of lame, amputee, leg-less, club-footed or missing toed characters, ideally hero(in)es in modern fantasy fiction? Film doesn't count. Mind goes ... blank.

Let's see, these are the things I need to write this Summer:

Banks chapter (I made a start but next items means I have to rethink)