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 that I am basically recommending it to everyone.
However, for sheer I-shit, this-is-awesome-and-I-want-to-use-it-in-stories, the most raw inspiration for the week has come out of Geoff Manaugh’s The Burglar’s Guide to the City. Manaugh looks at the spatial dimensions of architecture/town planning and how it’s transformed through the act of burglary, and it’s one of those books that will have you looking at the world in a whole new way at the end.
What part of my project an I avoiding?
There are a three half-written scenes in the first act of Float that need to be turned into something not-bitsy, as well as being brought into line with the narrative voice. I am dragging my feet on it because it will be hard and it’s less fun that writing new beats and moments, but it needs to be done before the second act will settle into its rhythm.
