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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 am overrun with half-finished short stories and writing-adjacent admin tasks at the moment, so I am giving myself a single task this week: submit a story somewhere. Doesn’t matter which one it is, out of the various in-progress options on my hard drive, so long as I pick one and get it out before next Sunday. What’s inspiring me this week? I’m a huge fan of Elizabeth Bear’s New Amsterdam series featuring the pairing of a vampire detective and a forensic sorcerer solving crimes in an alternative history America, and I eagerly bought each

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 made so little progress on last week’s goals that they’re basically carrying over. This week is all about refining a short story and doing a rewrite of another. What’s inspiring me this week? I’m not a huge fan of Helen Garner’s fiction, but I’ve been reading through her recent essay collection, Everywhere I Look, and it is pretty damn phenomenal. I have an unreasonable affection for a good personal essay, and this one is packed with great essays that tackle topics near and dear to my heart (creativity, sense of place) What part of

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 have a week off work and a new set of antidepressants that seem to avoid all the side-effects of the last meds, so this week is all about higher-than-normal social times, cleaning my house, and getting a fracking short story done. I’ve given myself a deadline of July 31 to get two stories out and into submission. What’s inspiring me this week? I re-read Georgette Heyer’s Venitia for book club this week, and it was a curious experience. I’ve read the book twice before, and I love it dearly, but there is a peculiarity

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 finally chained together a couple of consecutive writing days, which means I should finish a short story draft this afternoon. Once that’s done, I’ve got a different short story that I want to get redrafted into submission-ready form by the end of the week. What’s inspiring me this week? I’m about half-way through China Mieville’s short story collection, Three Moments of an Explosion, which is one of those collections packed full of stories that make me want to sit down and write short stories. The Dowager of Bees is probably worth the price of admission alone. What