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’ve spent the last week kicking around potential endings for a short story I’ve been writing, on and off, for about four years now. Still haven’t quite figured it out, but the most recent sequence of scenes is probably closer than I’ve been for a while.

What’s inspiring me this week?

I sat down and watched the first season of Faking It on Stan this week, and discovered that it is a show that is drastically undersold by it’s pitch. The surface description is all “two friends fake being lesbians in order to achieve status in high-school,” but the reality is far more complex of that.

The high-school setting is…well, so thoroughly liberal that it verges on being an SF story. The writing is sharp. The show is…funny.

What part of my project an I avoiding?

I need to sit down and do both my May Checkpoint and my weekly checkpoint, both of which I’ve been I’ve been slack about over the last seven days. I’ll be spending some quality time with the bullet journal this morning.