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 Warhol Sleeping redraft continues this week, and the books is really coming together now that I’m looking at the deeper structures. It’s going to be a bigger redraft than I originally thought, but it’s gradually transforming from a book I was slightly nervous about to a book I’m really confident about (also, now a book that will get at least one or two sequels, given that I started writing another short novel in the setting).

Also on the docket this week: working on a Loop & Hayley urban fantasy novel; working on my Vampires presentation; redrafting the first 1/3 of Cerberus Station Rumble to get the voice right; doing a few new scenes on the Warhol Sleeping follow-up. 

What’s inspiring me this week?

I’ve been hip-deep in cyberpunk narratives this week, catching up with Altered Carbon in TV and novel form, revisiting old William Gibson novels, and checking out Charlie Stross’ Halting State which is kinda like Cyberpunk getting filtered through the tech of the late 2000s instead of the eighties, dealing with the economies of online gaming, augmented reality, and exciting new forms of crime that cops don’t understand yet.

What action do I need to take?

I’d loosely earmarked Warhol Sleeping for a November 30 release, because it marks one year of Brain Jar Press, but the more detailed rewrite-and-fleshing-out process I’m doing makes that a date that’s tricky to hit. Still a feasible timeframe if I want it to be, but the book would need to take up much of my deep focus time every workday, leaving other projects to sit fallow until it’s done. On the other hand, part of the joy with Brain Jar is being in charge of my own projects, and being free to hold off until a project is done right instead of done-good-enough-to-release

I keep flipping back-and-forth over whether I’d rather double-down and hit my original target date, or embrace the slower approach and get other things done around the edges.