The Sunday Circle: What Are You Working On This Week?

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?

The awkward, totally-not-a-dream-sequence section of the story got finished this week, so my primary goal is getting through the rest of the space mummy story. Two or three scenes left to redraft and it’s getting towards a state that is almost…readable.

What’s inspiring me this week?

A friend introduced me to the Lucifer series on Fox this week, and it is bloody gorgeous. It’s got all the tropes of a standard urban fantasy buddy-cop narrative, except there is never any attempt to conceal the supernatural element. Lucifer, being Lucifer, just straight-up tells people the truth about who he is and what he’s capable of and just generally enjoys himself.

It’s…oddly refreshing.

And the writing is sufficiently smart, with incredible dialogue, that I want to sit down and write things just to try and match what they’re doing.

What part of my project an I avoiding?

I am not guarding writing time anywhere near as well as I should, at the moment. People are all, “would you like to do things?” and I’m in that rare state where my default answer is yes rather than no. It’s not been a problem for getting things on the projects that are going well, but one of the final scenes in the Mummy story involves some knotty narrative issues that need more than the minimal writing time I’ve had available.