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 got three short stories on the boil this week, and I’d really like to get one of the draft to a “finished” stage before next week’s Sunday Circle check-in. I’m going to spend a lot of time in my writing bunker this week, trying to figure out the minutia of key scenes in all three.

What’s inspiring me this week?

I broke and saw Captain America: Civil War at the cinemas, which means I’ve now seen as many things on the big screen in the first five months of 2016 as I saw in all five years before this combined. As always, I’m intrigued by the big-scale storytelling approach the Marvel movies are using, balancing the demands of the individual story against the complexities of a shared world narrative that’s spread across multiple franchises and (with Agents of Shield) mediums.

Also, I am thoroughly eager for Spiderman: Homecoming now.

What part of my project an I avoiding?

The penultimate scene in my Mummy Story, which I’ve now been circling around for three weeks without making any real progress. I think I need to track down a copy of the Godfather, or some other Mafia movie, and take a close look at how the scenes I’m trying to write are structured and how they’ll be altered by the presence of supernatural aliens and such.