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?

Things got a little off-track last week, so this week is all about regrouping and re-establishing habits. The first half of the week will likely be finishing off the first act of Project Stairwell, after which I might set the draft aside for a few days so I can work on a short story project for a stretch.

Mostly, though, it’ll be getting back into the habit of kicking off my days with thesis writing (one chapter down now, only four to go) and trying to hit my word-counts. Progress will matter slightly less than process for the next seven days.

What’s inspiring me this week?

I’m spending the weekend volunteering at Go Play, Brisbane’s Tabletop RPG and Board Game Mini-Con held at the State Library. It’s my first time at an RPG convention in over a decade, but that decade followed a period where I regularly attended a bunch of local and interstate cons, and…well, it’s been great to reconnect with a part of me that got excited about being around other gamers as a community, but also to see how different Go Play is (in very good ways) compared to what I’m used to.

What action do I need to take?

I’ve got a small run of projects that are hitting the “edits and marketing copy” stage, which is proving to be the point where things are most likely to stall when life gets busy. I need to put some thought into that–both why it’s happening and what I can do to mitigate it–but in the short term I’d like to get everything in place for at least one of those releases.