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’m thinking this will be my final week on the novella draft–there’s six scenes left that need to be fleshed out, maybe three days work at the current pace. Another two scenes that will need big rewrites due to choices made elsewhere in the story.

Depending on how things go, I may start the next project on the list–an urban fantasy thriller–while letting the finished draft lie fallow before the fine-tuning edit. 

What’s inspiring me this week?

I could refer you back to my post about Damon Suede’s Hothead from Tuesday on the fiction front for the book that’s got me most excited about writing at the moment. I keep dipping into a chapter here and there, breaking down the techniques employed–Suede spends a lot more time on the interiority of his characters than I tend to, and I’m intrigued by the way he keeps me interested as a reader. 

What action do I need to take?

I’ve been slowly adding things back into my daily routine of late. first, getting into a groove with fiction writing. Then I added a little thesis writing on top, and them some blogging /online writing after I’d established a thesis chain.

This week I think I’d like to start adding a little editing/redrafting to the daily routine, but I haven’t got any firm idea about how to track redrafting and build up a chain of successes. Figuring out how to do so is going to be a priority, if only so I can make a call about the sustainability of editing one project while drafting another.