ECLECTIC PROJECTS BLOG

The Sunday Circle is the weekly check-in where I ask the creative-types who follow this blog to weigh in about their goals, inspirations, and challenges for the coming week. The logic behind it can be found here. Want to be involved? It’s easy – just answer three questions in the comments or on your own blog (with a link in the comments here, so that everyone can find them). After that, throw some thoughts around about other people’s projects, ask questions if you’re so inclined. Be supportive above all. Then show up again next Sunday when the circle updates next, letting us know how you did on your weekly project and what you’ve got coming down the pipe in the coming week (if you’d like to part of the circle, without subscribing to the rest of the blog, you can sign-up for reminders via email here). MY CHECK-IN What am I working on this week? I’m finally at a point where the exegesis draft only needs half my daily writing time, rather than all of it, so I’m going to try and kickstart a fiction project this way. My goal is to get a few words down on a novella draft, and plot out the novella that I’ll be writing after it. What’s inspiring me this week? Loretta Chase’s Mr Impossible, a historical romance about a bookish widower and an irresponsible English nobleman chasing across Egypt to track down the rapscallions who have made off with said widower’s brother. It’s

I just realised that the Sunday Circle turns four years old this weekend, which is a lot of weekly check-ins about projects, inspiration, and identifying sticking points. It’s probably a sign that I need to revise the intro to these posts. A project to think about for the new year. The Sunday Circle is the weekly check-in where I ask the creative-types who follow this blog to weigh in about their goals, inspirations, and challenges for the coming week. The logic behind it can be found here. Want to be involved? It’s easy – just answer three questions in the comments or on your own blog (with a link in the comments here, so that everyone can find them). After that, throw some thoughts around about other people’s projects, ask questions if you’re so inclined. Be supportive above all. Then show up again next Sunday when the circle updates next, letting us know how you did on your weekly project and what you’ve got coming down the pipe in the coming week (if you’d like to part of the circle, without subscribing to the rest of the blog, you can sign-up for reminders via email here). MY CHECK-IN What am I working on this week? Finishing off a few chapters in the exegesis that have blown out past word count, and doing a lot of the busywork in terms of making the draft readable (ie checking references, proofing, etc). What’s inspiring me this week? Monica Valentinelli’s Make Art, Not War

The Sunday Circle is the weekly check-in where I ask the creative-types who follow this blog to weigh in about their goals, inspirations, and challenges for the coming week. The logic behind it can be found here. Want to be involved? It’s easy – just answer three questions in the comments or on your own blog (with a link in the comments here, so that everyone can find them). After that, throw some thoughts around about other people’s projects, ask questions if you’re so inclined. Be supportive above all. Then show up again next Sunday when the circle updates next, letting us know how you did on your weekly project and what you’ve got coming down the pipe in the coming week (if you’d like to part of the circle, without subscribing to the rest of the blog, you can sign-up for reminders via email here). MY CHECK-IN What am I working on this week? My deadline to get a rough exegesis draft to my supervisor is this Friday, which largely sets my to-do list for the week. There’s about four thousand coherent words left to write, and about ten thousand incoherent ideas half-written in another file. Much of my week will be spent winnowing out the bad ideas and finding the stuff that will fit. Once the draft is turned in, I’m taking a few days to chill and then getting back to fiction…but that’s likely to be next week’s project. What’s inspiring me this week? Rian Johnson’s Knives

The Sunday Circle is the weekly check-in where I ask the creative-types who follow this blog to weigh in about their goals, inspirations, and challenges for the coming week. The logic behind it can be found here. Want to be involved? It’s easy – just answer three questions in the comments or on your own blog (with a link in the comments here, so that everyone can find them). After that, throw some thoughts around about other people’s projects, ask questions if you’re so inclined. Be supportive above all. Then show up again next Sunday when the circle updates next, letting us know how you did on your weekly project and what you’ve got coming down the pipe in the coming week (if you’d like to part of the circle, without subscribing to the rest of the blog, you can sign-up for reminders via email here). MY CHECK-IN What am I working on this week? I’ve just spent two weeks marking, and like all end-of-year grading exercises, it obliterated any other work. Which means this week is all about gaining ground on the two projects earmarked for end-of-November deadlines–getting my exegesis draft finished, and getting a new short story collection together. Everything will be drafting and line-edits for the next seven days, possibly the next fourteen. What’s inspiring me this week? My partner and I finally caught up with Season 4 of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, which is a phenomenal series in and of itself but also a really