#100DayProject

This year, I'm doing the #100DayProject, as I did last year and in 2016. It's going to be more reading and, possibly, another chapter developed.

I've read some of the essays in here in other collections. The introduction is a fine one, written by Joshi. More to come.*

*I tried posting this from the Blogger app last night but no luck. It's my day one post.

Update and reading material.

I got the conference paper from last year's NecronomiCon PVD revised and to the editor on deadline, which was 3 February. I'm less happy with the draft than I wanted to be, but unfortunate family events* kept me from working on it as much as I would have otherwise.

Today's reading material:

...oh, god, I just fell into the MLA wormhole and joined for a year, all because I pulled out the 8th edition handbook.

....aaaaand MLA Humanities Commons profile page is timing out, so no adding info THANKS, OBAMA.

Anyway, what I'm reading today is underneath this green Crown Royal bag containing a brown Blanton's bag containing a small statuette of Cthulhu; two necklaces; a set of gaming dice; a very nice metal spinner that I will never use; a Mythos challenge coin (a sigil is on the reverse) that signifies that I'll be buying all the drinks, given that Cthulhu doesn't exist; and a small handcrafted piece of Mythos art designed to be a menacing octopus.

Adams, Donald K., editor. Mystery and Detection Annual 1972. Castle Press, 1972.

Let's go.

(*) Munch, one of our beloved basset hounds, was diagnosed with and died of lymphoma in the span of 11 days in early January. That was hard, and still is.

"The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength." --Marcus Aurelius

Today's reading is:

Smith, Peter. "HP Lovecraft and the Feast of Saturnalia." Crypt of Cthulhu 13 (1): 4-8. I might also tackle an article on Call of Cthulhu (the tabletop RPG) in this issue.

“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.” --Seneca

Tonight's reading is from one, possibly more, past issues of Crypt of Cthulhu. I picked up the following issues at NecronomiCon Providence this year, directly from Necromonicon Press:

82; vol. 12, no. 1 (Hallowmas 1992)
85, vol. 13, no. 1 (Hallowmas 1993)
85, vol. 13, no. 3 (Lammas 1994)
93, vol. 15, no. 3 (Lammas 1996)
96, vol. 16, no. 3 (Lammas 1997)
97, vol. 17, no. 1 (Hallowmas 1997)
98, vol. 17, no. 2 (Eastertide 1998)

And the newest one:

108, Hallowmas 2017

The other writing iron in the fire is prep work to get the NecronomiCon presentation whipped into shape for publication.

Abstract, reading, world enough and time.

Update: I submitted the abstract on HP Lovecraft and detective fiction to NecronomiCon Providence and was accepted for the Armitage Symposium! I'm glad to be presenting again. I'm also moderating a symposium panel. The schedule should be released soon.

Re: reading, I just finished Maurice Levy's Lovecraft: A Study in the Fantastic (transl. S.T. Joshi). It had a number of helpful passages, which was gratifying. You never know what you're getting with some Lovecraft researchers, other than the reliable ones.

I really need to read more on aesthetics, but I've got to draft this paper. Maybe after I finish the first draft.

Scrivener, here I come.

Much reading.

I finished Landrum and am almost all the way through Ascari.

Both books have been good sources of ideas, but now I've got to start working on the abstract. May 22 looms.

Page proofs, reviewed.

I got the page proofs in earlier this week and reviewed them last night. All is in order! My many thanks to Dennis Quinn and Niels-Viggo Hobbs for their work on the Armitage Symposium at NecronomiCon Providence and the Lovecraftian Proceedings.