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?

I more-or-less finished a very rough draft of Median Survival Time last week, but there’s still five scenes that aren’t quite right. The main task for this week will be going through and redrafting them, getting them into a format that better suits the novella and the ending.

If those are done in time, I move on to the detail-pass–going in and adding all the little details and flourishes, looking for ways to tighten up the setting and the character perspectives.

What’s inspiring me this week?

I’m about two-thirds of the way through Peter May’s The Black House, a police procedural that takes place on a remote Island in the Hebrides. The story is solid, but what elevates this is the precision of language during the descriptions of the physical and social landscape.

What action do I need to take?

I’ve been refining a paper idea after bouncing the topic of my supervisor, but I’ve been putting off the redrafting to the abstract for nearly a week. I’ll need to get a new version of that together by Friday, so I can get feedback on it before the deadline at the end of the month.