Putting out a request from an old lecturer of mine, who sent this to me after seeing me cheer the end of one fanfiction chapter in my facebook status.

"I've been doing a survey of fanfic and zine writers for some research I'm doing towards an article on the potential connections between these forms and creative writing practice in Unis. If you are ( Read more... )

It is DONE! Finished. *cheers*

Not sure if I want to post it, now that it's all written, but going to put up the abstract, just so you can see how it turned out in the end. After that, we'll see. Then going to bed. OMG! Sleep! I can has it!
( Dissertation Abstract )

Never trust my own judgement. It's not as good as I think it is. I'm still editing this beast. Writing thesis is a labour of love? Try exorcism.

( misery beneath )

Currently stands at just over 4,000 words, sans introduction and conclusion, which I need to see Ann about before whacking those in. But, it's DONE! The draft is DONE! Have been working on it solid for the last ... almost 19 hours (with a litre of coke), having needed to totally rewrite what I had before. Gary Alan Fine works just fine, but as a ( Read more... )

I stacked up all my textbooks (and that there grey thing, which is my workbook), instead of having them sprawled everywhere. The result was mildly horrifying. I cry. (and this doesn't include those that I've returned already, which is at least 4 that I recall, nor the creative nonfiction texts I've read.) My poor laptop is overwhelmed.


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Two months to go, and my thesis question has changed again - What strategies work most effectively to represent, for a general audience, ways in which role-play fantasy games make possible diverse identity experiences?

Should I be so amazed that my thesis question, originally to do with the history of D&D, then the investment in editions of it, no ( Read more... )

Spent all week writing the creative part of my thesis - it's basically my tale of my journey through Dungeons and Dragons. 4,000 words down (the pause on Romanticide can be attributed to this), totally raw and unedited, which puts me halfway through the creative piece, and leaves the exegesis.

Took this in to my supervisors today, and they're both ( Read more... )

Saw my supervisors today. And they have requested 5,000 words for next Monday. I know I'm late in the game, but it's doable. It wasn't until afterwards that I realised that that's almost half the word count. -faints-

However, that's 5,000 words completely unedited, we'll be working through whatever I purge. (Don't quite know if I can do that....) ( Read more... )

Both campaigns in one go. Been making a lot of comparisons between 3.5e (or, as one DM puts it, pi edition) and 4e - have completed 5 of 8 interviews. Interesting stuff going on there.

The Wierdening (Menelion) - in the middle of updating to 4e, still gathering character and campaign information.

Campaign Session
After falling in a hole and killing ( Read more... )

A lot of roleplaying, difference in player groups, marked difference between characters - flamboyant and generally more fun, in direct contrast to HtKaG characters who, although in character, are not so exuberant.
New version, no one really knows what is going on. Over and over. Learning process.

Group dynamic works very differently. ( Read more... )