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 starting to work through the draft of Float and weave in some of the secondary stories, adding in some new POV characters that flesh out the action and world where the main character isn’t present.

What’s inspiring me this week?

The most immediately useful thing I’ve seen this week is Ascension, an SF mini-series I found on netflix which packs of lot of story in six episodes. It’s premise starts simply enough – the life of a generation ship crew as they’re halfway through their 100 year journey to a distant star – but it adds in some twists that are pretty-well executed and the setting is very stylized. Nowhere near the level of The Expanse in terms of good SF currently on television, but it’s a well-executed show that plays its conceits well.

But the most inspiring thing I’ve seen this week was the QTC production of Moliere’s Tartuffe, which is a brilliantly funny adaptation that continues QTCs run of great sets and great blocking on their theatre productions.

What part of my project an I avoiding?

A lot of the scenes that i’m writing over the current week need to flesh out the world of the novel, but I’ve been avoiding doing a lot of worldbuilding up to this point. Trying to get comfortable with the info dump as a necessary evil, at least in the first draft of a sccene, is far harder than it should be for me.

I’ve also been meaning to write a blog post about the fact that today marks the one-year anniversary of The Sunday Circle here on the blog. I was really nervous about kicking this off, picturing a feature where I’d sit around talking to myself for weeks on end. Instead, I’ve learned a lot from everyone whose posted here about their process, problems, and inspiration – thanks to everyone for being part of it.