Ripper The Jack

This is a glimpse behind the curtain, after a fashion, as I like to see this blogger/blogspot as a production blog (among many other things). And I want to share a bit of the backstory on the Jack The Ripper book which I believe I have done little more than but mention before.
Autumn Painted Red is a coffeetable book concerning the dastardly notorious Jack The Ripper murders that plagued Whitechapel over a century past. It will feature the work of a small collection of authors, myself included. And the project actually began over a year and a half ago. During the brief window of time in which Alex Ness had recruited me to write for popthought.com and I in turn had recruited him to write for comicnews.info, he told me of this book he wanted to put together, offering different literary reactions and commentary on dear old Jack. The idea of tackling a somewhat psychological evaluation on the ramifications the case to this day still inspires in popular media and culture...well, I was in. But it has been a very stop and go project since, however. This is mostly due to conflicting schedules of all contributing parties. Joe Monks wrote the introduction for us, and loved what we were trying to do to such an extent that he later agreed to publish the work himself. Much progress has been made in the past several months, although my segment is still in progress. I am putting so much into this.
I possess extensive notes and research from the past year, with each a skeleton and a rough draft completed. I have known for a long time exactly what my own mission statement in all of this would be. Unfortunately, I approach writing in much the same way that method actors approach their own trade. Getting into the appropriate mindset for something like this has on occasion been problematic in maintaining. In addition to relevant reading materials, I am drinking more, I am smoking pot, I am loosening the inhibitions of daily survival mode. I am hitting a punching bag daily- partially for exercise and partially for release, but also as an attempt to get into a more violent frame of mind. I have been looking up Domestic Violence legal cases from every decade going back to that particular Autumn Painted Red. I am trying to alienate myself, to create this distinct mood oh so damn necessary for this. Moreso, my regular job even involves security in the nightlife environment of the local social scene. I see a number of dark alleys with an almost uncomfortable regularity.
And every piece of this experience is going into my part of the book. Which I absolutely must finish in the very very near future, for the sake of deadline as well as to be free of this infectious monster altogether.