X Files 20 Years On
Abstract revised and sent! Just got to keep all my fingers crossed that it gets accepted, and that I can get ethics committee approval from uni for it (I'm planning on questioning/interviewing fans under the age of 16 so I need to put a good proposal forward to the committee). I also haven't told my supervisor (again) that I'm submitting this abstract. I know he wouldn't be that happy with me doing it when I should be concentrating on my lit review, and he has a point, but the stuff I'm looking at for the paper links directly to the research I'm doing on my lit review, and first drafts don't need to be in til January next year, which gives me plenty of time to work on it. Plus, I'm doing a PhD on The X Files. I can't pass up an opportunity to submit something to a journal that's doing a special edition on that very topic!
In other news, the slash book chapter I'm writing seems to be going well. I've had lots of thinky-thoughts on it, which have translated into about 6000 words of notes, and that's without any quotes from my interviewees or their fic in there! One thing I do need to find though, are femslash writers in the Twilight fandom. It's a long shot, I know, but do any of you happen to know anyone who'd be interested in being interviewed?
I'm off to see the Manic Street Preachers in Cardiff tonight so I'm just getting ready and then waiting for my sister and dad to arrive (my dad is a Manics fan). It should be a good gig, though the weather's crap and I'm into the swing of things in my research so I don't really want to go.
In other news, the slash book chapter I'm writing seems to be going well. I've had lots of thinky-thoughts on it, which have translated into about 6000 words of notes, and that's without any quotes from my interviewees or their fic in there! One thing I do need to find though, are femslash writers in the Twilight fandom. It's a long shot, I know, but do any of you happen to know anyone who'd be interested in being interviewed?
I'm off to see the Manic Street Preachers in Cardiff tonight so I'm just getting ready and then waiting for my sister and dad to arrive (my dad is a Manics fan). It should be a good gig, though the weather's crap and I'm into the swing of things in my research so I don't really want to go.