• finish first draft of crux
  • work on short stories; practice
  • outline crux
  • start crux second draft
feb 16 2016 ∞
jan 3 2018 +

currently reading:

  • the grand design by stephen hawking & leonard mlodinow
  • on writing by stephen kingo

to read:

  • never let me go by kazuo ishiguro
  • a wizard of earthsea by ursula k. le guin (audiobook)
  • a stitch in time by andrew robinson
  • the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson
  • dhalgren by samuel delany

finished (12/50):

  • the stand by stephen king
  • _life on mars) by tracy k. smith
  • the left hand of darkness by ursula k. le guin (audiobook)
  • doctor sleep by stephen king
  • lightspeed magazine issue june 2015
  • the shining by stephen king (audiobook)
  • how forests think by eduardo kohn
  • the souls of black folk by w.e.b. du bois
  • salem's lot by stephen king (audiobook)
feb 16 2016 ∞
mar 15 2018 +

watched:

  • get out
  • contact

to watch/rewatch:

  • lotr
  • the handmaiden
  • animated rotk
  • interstellar
  • terminator
  • thor: ragnarok
  • logan
  • the shape of water
  • black panther
  • a wrinkle in time
jan 6 2018 ∞
mar 9 2018 +
  • job hunt
  • journal regularly
  • read: more theory, fiction
  • work consistently
  • write
feb 16 2016 ∞
jan 20 2018 +

to read:

  • metamorphoses of science fiction by darko suvin
  • the protestant work ethic and the spirit of capitalism by max weber
  • the wretched of the earth by frantz fanon
  • "the stranger" by georg simmel

to explore:

  • racism in the u.s.
  • migration theory
  • development of capitalism / proposed alternatives
  • lgbt stuff
  • writing genre theory / science fiction theory

how to do this:

  • books
  • online articles
  • go through sources from school
mar 1 2017 ∞
feb 15 2018 +
  • "the amorphous fictional spaces of ursula k. le guin," gabrielle bellot link
  • "the popular tradition of science fiction criticism, 1926-1980," westfahl (.pdf)
  • "the fantastic ursula k. le guin," julie phillips link
  • "science fiction and empire," csicsery-ronay (.pdf)
  • "introduction: a history of social science fiction," gerlach, hamilton (.pdf)
  • "connections, links, and extended networks: patterns in octavia butler's science fiction," govan (.pdf)
  • "towards an aesthetic of science fiction," russ (.pdf)
  • "the forest as a metaphor for mind: 'the word for world is forest' and 'vaster than empires and more slow,'" watson (.pdf)
  • "ambiguity in utopia: 'the dispossessed,'" bierman (.pdf)
  • "public and private imperatives in le gui...
nov 7 2017 ∞
jan 1 2020 +