So let's update this...

• Greg Davies (29 November)
• Jeremy Hardy (30 November)
• Attend Sekrit Comedy Gig. Maybe (1 December - decided against)
• Read Seminar 4 of The Sovereign and the Beast (delayed through snow but done)
• Awkward Silence (2 December - snowed off)

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 ( Read more... )

• 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 - ( Read more... )

So, this month I need to:

• Write a 2000 word piece on PKD (by a couple of weeks ago - a draft done, needs fact checking and an edit)
  
• 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)
  
• ( Read more... )

I appear to have forgotten to do this for July. Ooops.

Ah well.

( That To Read List )

Let's put the to write to one side for now - headed for the halfway point on the book; have read a goodly deal, a goodly deal to read.

Reading list
( cut for sanity )

1. Write 5,000 word chapter on The Man Who Fell to Earth
2. Revise 5,000 word chapter on The Man Who Fell to Earth
3. Rewrite review DONE!!!
   
4. Write a section for another guide to sf [I've done a plan for this]
5. Write an article on slipstream
6. Write a chapter based on the proposal on narratives
7. A 120,000 word book on seventies sf

49200 / 120000 words. 41% ( Read more... )

Okay, I don't seem to be getting with resolutions, but I think a draft of one or two of the articles needs to emerge this month. You'll also not that the word count for the seventies book has gone up - I've temporarily lied about ten thousand words as likely bibliography length.

1. Write 5,000 word chapter on The Man Who Fell to Earth
2. Rewrite review
3. ( Read more... )

Still been marking and teaching, so read very little, seen very little, but some useful films watched. Finally seen John Hegley after twenty years of trying (not trying very hard, to be honest) and saw Zoe Lyons. John Bishop postponed - due to doing telly stuff. So:

1. Probably write another chapter on The Man Who Fell to Earth
   
2. Rewrite review
   
3. Write a ( Read more... )

Not a good month for watching films or reading books on the list, or indeed working on the To Do List. But it was dominated by marking and second marking and external marking. Some great comedy - Dave Gorman, Chris Addison, some fine comedy - Pappy’s, Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Return Letter to Richard Branson - and one okay - Jason Byrne. More ( Read more... )