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Essay Progress, Next Projects
A little cross-platform blog-style update (to appear in a variety of places)
This is the final week to get the last section of my Meteorite-horror film essay done for Michele’s new book. I’ve a shade over 5,000 words written, and I am in the home stretch! But I am also in the toughest part, were all the theoretical bits come together. It’s been a long essay, but I know it will be amazing.
Projects afterwards:
Reviews for Heathen Harvest (as always)
Book review of The Art of Rube Goldberg for the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
Possibly a story about the Cats of Ulthar for an upcoming anthology
Prelimary research on an essay about Weird Westerns
And the big big one….
Submit my own book proposal in
My plan for the longest time has been to get 2 essays done for other journals/books before tackling a book myself. The time is coming very close that I need to step up and do that.
Aside from finishing my essay on meteorite-horror films, yesterday Michele, Jule, Adam and I recorded our 10th podcast episode of H.P. Lovecast, this time about C. Hall Thompson’s short story “The Spawn of the Green Abyss.” It was a lively dialog about a story not talked about much, and of course it can be heard here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58RgiqLt5BI
I’ve submitted a review to Heathen Harvest about an upcoming vinyl about with some spoken word tracks of Lovecraft stories, so that should be published soon.
For personal fun stuff, on Saturday Michele and I went to Phat Con – a comic book convention held at Dave and Buster’s and put on by Phat Collectables. I got a Turok comic signed by Rob Liefeld, so that was awesome.
This upcoming February is going to be a crazy month, as Michele and I will be in a music video, going to some awards, going to the Long Beach Comic Con, along with general writing and other fun stuff. Exciting times!
This is the final week to get the last section of my Meteorite-horror film essay done for Michele’s new book. I’ve a shade over 5,000 words written, and I am in the home stretch! But I am also in the toughest part, were all the theoretical bits come together. It’s been a long essay, but I know it will be amazing.
Projects afterwards:
Reviews for Heathen Harvest (as always)
Book review of The Art of Rube Goldberg for the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
Possibly a story about the Cats of Ulthar for an upcoming anthology
Prelimary research on an essay about Weird Westerns
And the big big one….
Submit my own book proposal in
My plan for the longest time has been to get 2 essays done for other journals/books before tackling a book myself. The time is coming very close that I need to step up and do that.
Aside from finishing my essay on meteorite-horror films, yesterday Michele, Jule, Adam and I recorded our 10th podcast episode of H.P. Lovecast, this time about C. Hall Thompson’s short story “The Spawn of the Green Abyss.” It was a lively dialog about a story not talked about much, and of course it can be heard here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58RgiqLt5BI
I’ve submitted a review to Heathen Harvest about an upcoming vinyl about with some spoken word tracks of Lovecraft stories, so that should be published soon.
For personal fun stuff, on Saturday Michele and I went to Phat Con – a comic book convention held at Dave and Buster’s and put on by Phat Collectables. I got a Turok comic signed by Rob Liefeld, so that was awesome.
This upcoming February is going to be a crazy month, as Michele and I will be in a music video, going to some awards, going to the Long Beach Comic Con, along with general writing and other fun stuff. Exciting times!
Essay Submitted, Next Adventures
A five month chapter comes to an end.
On Saturday I completed my meteorite-horror essay and submitted it to my editor. The ending word count, including endnotes and footnotes, is 7,057 words – yet I still lack a title. The next steps are of course to await and incorporate edits and hopefully to see print at the end of this year.
I'm still early in my writing career, this will be my second essay published in a book, but having the project more-or-less completed is a huge weight off me. Though the results are not instantly manifest, I still feel like I've accomplished something big, or at least big to me.
There's of course reflection. Five months of research and composition to pen an essay that is barely over 7,000 words in length. With my first essay published back in 2014, this has me thinking that I am not being productive enough with my own writing. Granted, I've attached obligations to writing reviews to the Heathen Harvest publication, but I look at some of my other peers and writer friends who are much more prolific.
So I am not sure how to take it, perhaps something to improve on. As I write more, I will “write more” if that makes sense?
The time has come now to cash in the 2 essay promise to myself. I said once I was in two book, the time would be for me to compose my own. So in the coming months I am going to align myself, get my ducks in a row and submit a proposal to a publisher for a book I have in mind. No details quite yet (though personal acquaintances may know what book I have in mind).
But I shall not stay static, a tiny respite this week before I dive into the next few projects which include:
Composing and submitting an academic review for “The Art of Rube Goldberg” to the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics at Taylor and Francis
Composing a short story about the Cats of Ulthar for a call for stories for an upcoming anthology
Begin preliminary research on an essay for a possible upcoming book on Weird-Westerns. I would be submitting a proposal for “Beast of Hollow Mountain” and “Gwanji.”
Reviews and Interview for Heathen Harvest
Speaking of, I just had a review published there on a vinyl of spoken words of the H.P. Lovecraft short stories “The Hound” and “The Music of Erich Zann.” This review can be read here:
https://heathenharvest.org/2016/01/31/h-p-lovecraft-the-hound-the-music-of-erich-zann/
For fun, I been catching up on my reading, such as Beth Cato's The Clockwork Crown and playing Shovel Knight on the Xbox One. Oh, how eager am I for the new Doom game to come out.
The rest of February looks to be extremely busy: Michele and I got invited to be part of a music video this upcoming weekend, and there is the Long Beach Comic Expo and other obligations as well. However for tonight, I'll afford myself a little bit of laziness.
On Saturday I completed my meteorite-horror essay and submitted it to my editor. The ending word count, including endnotes and footnotes, is 7,057 words – yet I still lack a title. The next steps are of course to await and incorporate edits and hopefully to see print at the end of this year.
I'm still early in my writing career, this will be my second essay published in a book, but having the project more-or-less completed is a huge weight off me. Though the results are not instantly manifest, I still feel like I've accomplished something big, or at least big to me.
There's of course reflection. Five months of research and composition to pen an essay that is barely over 7,000 words in length. With my first essay published back in 2014, this has me thinking that I am not being productive enough with my own writing. Granted, I've attached obligations to writing reviews to the Heathen Harvest publication, but I look at some of my other peers and writer friends who are much more prolific.
So I am not sure how to take it, perhaps something to improve on. As I write more, I will “write more” if that makes sense?
The time has come now to cash in the 2 essay promise to myself. I said once I was in two book, the time would be for me to compose my own. So in the coming months I am going to align myself, get my ducks in a row and submit a proposal to a publisher for a book I have in mind. No details quite yet (though personal acquaintances may know what book I have in mind).
But I shall not stay static, a tiny respite this week before I dive into the next few projects which include:
Composing and submitting an academic review for “The Art of Rube Goldberg” to the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics at Taylor and Francis
Composing a short story about the Cats of Ulthar for a call for stories for an upcoming anthology
Begin preliminary research on an essay for a possible upcoming book on Weird-Westerns. I would be submitting a proposal for “Beast of Hollow Mountain” and “Gwanji.”
Reviews and Interview for Heathen Harvest
Speaking of, I just had a review published there on a vinyl of spoken words of the H.P. Lovecraft short stories “The Hound” and “The Music of Erich Zann.” This review can be read here:
https://heathenharvest.org/2016/01/31/h-p-lovecraft-the-hound-the-music-of-erich-zann/
For fun, I been catching up on my reading, such as Beth Cato's The Clockwork Crown and playing Shovel Knight on the Xbox One. Oh, how eager am I for the new Doom game to come out.
The rest of February looks to be extremely busy: Michele and I got invited to be part of a music video this upcoming weekend, and there is the Long Beach Comic Expo and other obligations as well. However for tonight, I'll afford myself a little bit of laziness.
