unday. The day of rest. The day of having a sleep in and getting the laundry done. The day of The Sunday Circle, where I ask the creative-types who follow this blog to weigh in about their goals, inspirations, and challenges for the coming week. 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 week two (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? Still going through the opening chapters of Space Marines: Pew! Pew! Pew! Eschewing my usual goals of trying to hit a specific plot-point and getting back to basics – I want to spend 14 hours on the manuscript over the next week, as measured by RescueTime (which only counts the active typing time, not the sitting in the space and staring time).
What’s inspiring me this week? The most recent episode of NXT on the WWE Network. It’s hard to explain the brilliance of this show if you’re not a wrestling fan, but in terms of concise character work, it was phenomenal. Wrestlers will get, maybe, a minute of promo time to get over their characters and conflicts every week, which means they need to embrace economy and really focus what they’re doing. This often goes wrong, or comes off as lame. This week had a whole bunch of short promos that were brilliant.
What part of my project an I avoiding? There’s a series of clunky action scenes that need to be fixed and I’m avoiding them ’cause I hate action scenes. Which may be a failing, in an action-oriented Space Marine book.
