tuesdays are fine, fine days, honey.

And so: an update on progression so far.

I am researching the lives of Daniel Johnston, Edgar Allen Poe, and Virginia Woolf. Also found an article yesterday which will prove to be extremely useful; a psychological essay on the historical links between creativity and madness ( sounds contradictory in subject matter but it really is brilliant). Will be posting highlights and key points of that essay following here. Need to do some more research on psychologocial and psychoanalytical evidence of various things to do with subject; statistics, research is quite important.

ALSO I have some contributors that are in need of contacting again for material:

1. Jessica S: an article/ pictures/ poetry on Sylvia Plath
2. Zachary D: a ramble type article
3. Feona A: Images, experience write up

Also found an article in the new issue of frankie, written by Rowena Grant-Frost, concerning her struggle with an anxiety disorder. Thus am trying to find contact details, so I can kindly ask for a couple of paragraphs on her experience, or quote bits from said article. Grant-Frost is a wonderful journalist, besides.

Nextly, I am also rounding up interview responses. Due to the alternative nature of the Zine, in which the codes and conventions of magazines are all mixed around a bit, I have also used an alternative interview process. Each interviewee has received a paper with all my questions: the interviewee is free to answer all, or less of the questions as they wish. They are to write their answers all over the paper if possible. Think I will try cutting out pieces of interviewee's handwriting to glue on typed-up answers in final product. This will add quirk/personality to the responses. The theme of the zine is, after all, quite personal.

Also one of the interviews, I think, will be very interesting; one of my interviewees today said he wanted to change his answers, before he gave them to me, because he was uncomfortable with the truth. This kind of showed me how the dynamics of the interview have changed in this instance; the interviewee is far more free to lie or act, but they will not be pressed for it. However that kind of truth will add a great deal of authenticity to PSYCHONIGHTMARE, I think.

Also am going to start printing pictures etc to begin arranging: pictures of/by Johnston, Woolf, Plath, Poe etc. Also have the Diana f+ photos of some of my interviewees, which must be photocopied. Also photos on normal camera must be printed.

Finally, I really need to keep writing those articles!! AND draw some images/gather poetry for front/back cover and so on. Need patterns, and so on. Even psychedelic ones.