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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? Moving forward on the second half of Float. I finished off six scenes worth of interrogation and escape yesterday, which means I’m kicking into the final sequence of the second act. It’s proving to be considerably slower than the last few weeks work, which is kinda frustrating, but I’ve got my fingers crossed that it’ll come together with a bit more planning. What’s inspiring me this week? I mainlined the first season of The Expanse on Netflix and it’s pretty damn incredible. It’s basically got all the things that I liked from Game of Thrones, transferred into

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 off the Bad Dog: Origins draft late yesterday afternoon, and started making notes about what I’ll need to do when I start revising scenes this week (mostly: build up the supernatural elements of the plot; create a list of all the references that need to be inserted earlier, or included later). That means this week is back to the Float draft, after spending the planning time over the last week putting together a new outline for the second half of the book. A couple of big meaty scenes in the next sequence, which

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 shelved Float until November after realising the story had strayed from the outline and I’d need to re-think the second half. I’ve switched over to working on a short novella, working title Bad Dog: Origins. I knocked over about ten thousand words over the last week, so I’ll be aiming to get six or seven scenes down in the coming week. What’s inspiring me this week? I’m in Lansdale country again, after starting on the Hap and Leonard TV series on Google Play and picking up the second novel in the sequence, Mucho Mujo. Lansdale

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? Should hit the mid-point of Float later today, which has been a fun experiment in trying to replicate the quick cuts of a good-guy-infiltrates-while-bad-guy-prepares movie beat into prose. Lots of dead bad guys, and the secondary antagonist gets wiped out in the name of bringing the primary protagonist into view. That means that the bulk of this week will go into the next major sequence, which is basically the move away from simple revenge into the larger plot. I am looking forward to this. What’s inspiring me this week? I’ve been heavy into the crime

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? Starting in on sequence four of Float this week, which will take the rough draft up to the midpoint of the story. Aiming for five scenes every week seems to be the sweet spot, in terms of keeping momentum going, so I can make a reasonable prediction that I’ll hit the end of this draft by close of November. I’m also off to teach a library workshop next Saturday and trying to clear another short story out of the redraft folder. If I time it right, I’ll finish that backlog about the same time as the Float