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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? Sat down and did my quarterly plan yesterday and figured out what I’d like to achieve over the next three months. Going to put some attention on redrafting a short-story this week, given that my brain is still rattled by a new course of anti-depressants. What’s inspiring me this week? I’ve been on a short-story kick for the last few days, and finally got around to reading The Best of Joe R. Lansdale which was, frankly, pretty damn incredible. Lansdale’s a writer with an enormous level of control over the voice and mood of his stories, and his

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? Still eking my way forward on Float, although I’m keeping my goals small courtesy of antidepressant weirdness. As long as the document gets opened and there is some forward momentum, I’m calling it a win. What’s inspiring me this week? I went and saw Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople with no real preconceptions about what the film was going to be like, and it was goddamn glorious. Heartfelt, beautifully shot, and utterly willing to engage in the little bits of meta-text that acknowledged its sources. Go see it, if you get the chance. What

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, slowly, starting to inch my way back into a regular routine again after the weirdness of the last few weeks. Unfortunately, this hasn’t come with anything beginning to approach the level of focus I’m used to, so my attention is now split between Float and a half-dozen short-story projects on any given day. And so, part of my job for the coming week is to sit down and figure out why I’m reluctant to move forward on the novella and punch into the second act. What’s inspiring me this week? I’ve been making

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’d hoped to be finished with the first act of Float this week, but alas, I was mugged by sadness a few days ago and that has thrown my schedule off. So I am hoping to get the first act finished this week, and make up some ground on the second act when I get to send my axe-wielding, mildly-psychotic protagonist to work killing a whole bunch of very bad people. What’s inspiring me this week? So the best thing I read this week was Kameron Hurley The Geek Feminist Revolution, which I love so hard