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 finally chained together a couple of consecutive writing days, which means I should finish a short story draft this afternoon. Once that’s done, I’ve got a different short story that I want to get redrafted into submission-ready form by the end of the week.

What’s inspiring me this week?

I’m about half-way through China Mieville’s short story collection, Three Moments of an Explosion, which is one of those collections packed full of stories that make me want to sit down and write short stories. The Dowager of Bees is probably worth the price of admission alone.

What part of my project an I avoiding?

I’ve got a couple of applications for projects I want to do next year, but I’ve been putting them off while things were crazy. Time to start double-checking deadlines and requirements, then start getting the various supporting documents together.