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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 spent a large chunk of last week working on a single scene in the novella that I’m writing for my thesis, breaking down the conventions that exist within the genre and how I’ll be fulfilling them and delivering a few surprises that showcase the things that make this story its own thing. More work than I’ve done for a single scene in years, and largely invisible to the reader, but I’m starting to get a handle on how to make this particular story work. This week will be typing that scene up after hand

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 finished the draft on my ghost story last week, so it’s sitting fallow for a few days before I start redrafting. In its place, I’ve slotted a new story about Los Angeles, loneliness, and kaiju into the parts of my week where I work on short fiction, while my long-form block continues to be devoted to the first draft of a thesis novella. The latter is giving me some issues, though–it’s ostensibly a Aliens-esque space marine story, but I’m not yet convinced that I’ve found the twist that makes it an interesting take on

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 on the downward slope of the next Short Fiction Lab story. It’s a ghost story build around a road trip, and the two characters have finally hit the ghost where everything picks up and we barrel towards the inevitable conclusion. Aiming to get the draft finished this. Also on the docket: more work on Warhol Sleeping, which has slowed down a lot due to the necessity of focusing more time on my thesis for a stretch; more work on the thesis novella, with some heavy thinking about how I can do something interesting with

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 got page proofs and final copy for a new Short Fiction Lab release to finish off in the early parts of the week, and then I’ve got a few days to focus on finishing the Warhol Sleeping project. This will probably start with a compile of the current draft and a thorough re-read of where I’m up to–having to stop work on it halfway through a major rewrite of the third section means I’ve got two different books in my head at the moment and I’m not sure what I’m really working with.  What’s inspiring