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?

Heading down to the GANZA conference on Tuesday, which means the first half of the week will be spent putting the final touches on my conference paper and working out transport logistics (I’m not looking forward to the 5:30 start on Tuesday). Planning on a day to recover, which leaves me with a very short working week on Friday to get writing projects kickstarted.

What’s inspiring me this week?

My head’s been in a lot of reference books that I’ve read a hundred times before this week, but writing the final stages of the conference paper has given me a new appreciation for Elizabeth Bear’s New Amsterdam stories–there’s some structural choices she makes that really underpin the immortality of her vampire in some really interesting ways as the series moves towards the final novella, without making it the centre of the narrative.

What action do I need to take?

So much of my attention has been focused on the paper part of the conference that I’ve neglected a lot of the travel logistics, and there’s . distinct lack of post-conference planning at work. Both are on my list now that the conference is so close