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 down to the final scene on the story I started last week, so I’m looking to get that written around some thesis work in the coming days. Hell Track has been a little slower to resume work on, but I’m going to break out a notebook and start tackling all the hiccups which have emerged over the last week.

What’s inspiring me this week?

I’ve been reading Rick Remender’s run on Uncanny Avengers over the last week, which does an incredible job of blending the history of two Marvel franchises and coming up with some really high-level, cosmic plots that still feel grounded in the people. I generally like the Avengers least when they’re tackling big, cosmic-level plots involving time travel, and I’ve liked the X-Men comics least when they’re dealing with time-travelling, unknowable villains like Apocalypse. Remender takes both and fuses them into something incredible, while keeping the action grounded in the foibles of the team.

What action do I need to take?

Chaos has taken over my desk over the last month as it became the dumping ground for things that did not have a home in the flat, and the available work space has shrunk to the size of the keyboard. I really need to start sorting things and either finding homes or tossing things away, because it’s becoming harder and harder to work there.