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 spent a large chunk of last week working on a single scene in the novella that I’m writing for my thesis, breaking down the conventions that exist within the genre and how I’ll be fulfilling them and delivering a few surprises that showcase the things that make this story its own thing. More work than I’ve done for a single scene in years, and largely invisible to the reader, but I’m starting to get a handle on how to make this particular story work.

This week will be typing that scene up after hand writing a rough, then thinking about the implications that ripple out through other scenes I’ve got written.

What’s inspiring me this week?

So, years after it was one of the hottest books on the planet, I finally got around to reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. It’s a really good whydoneit book that, where the who is kinda secondary to the uncovering of why everything takes place, and I spent the day reading process scribbling notes as I pulled apart the way it did things.

What action do I need to take?

Editing. There’s a big chunk of redraft-and-editing work on my todo list that I’m largely ignoring at the moment, but needs to get its time in the scene. May be time to break out the kitchen timer and track pomodoros for a bit.