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 finally at a point where the exegesis draft only needs half my daily writing time, rather than all of it, so I’m going to try and kickstart a fiction project this way. My goal is to get a few words down on a novella draft, and plot out the novella that I’ll be writing after it.

What’s inspiring me this week?

Loretta Chase’s Mr Impossible, a historical romance about a bookish widower and an irresponsible English nobleman chasing across Egypt to track down the rapscallions who have made off with said widower’s brother. It’s incredibly solid romance, reminding me a lot of the sheer glee I take in Anne Gracie’s work, but anyone whose a fan of the Brandon Fraser Mummy films is going to recognise this dynamic and thrill at the characters.

For me, it also got me thinking about the notes for a planetary romance series I’ve been meaning to write for years, in which a character named Mrs Northbrook investigates wrongdoing on Steampunk Mars.

What action do I need to take?

I need to go through my thesis draft and check all the references, then compile the bibliography. I’ve been putting this one off for a while now, but the time has come.