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?
Working through the feedback on my thesis prospectus and putting together the final rewrites of the supporting documents that go in with it.Things turned out to be in much better shape than I thought when I sent the draft through to my supervisor, so I’m hoping I can have it all out of the way by this time next week.
What’s inspiring me this week?
I know I’ve said this before, but I re-watched the first few episodes of Riverdale this week and it’s a very different experience where you know what they’re building towards in the season finale. There’s an incredible amount of stuff built into the show that you don’t notice right up – little cuts away to minor characters for reactions, or making use of a character’s sight lines to convey things in scenes where they don’t have dialogue – and it’s a lot easier to see the meticulousness of what they’re doing.
I really am going to read something in the coming week, though. I’m starting to get twitchy about the lack of finished books.
What part of my project an I avoiding?
I really, really need to schedule work this week. The last seven days have been weirdly intense and busy, and it’s started to affect my mindset a bit – I’m wavering between intense bursts of doing everything and seeing everyone, alternating with long periods where I’m semi-comatose and unwilling to do anything. That’s a pretty good sign that I’m going to burn out real soon, so actually thinking about my work/relaxation split and planning it out instead of just doing whatever comes up is getting pushed to the top of my priority list.
I’ve ended up taking a short, unscheduled break from writing newsletters over the last fourteen days. Regular GenrePunk Ninja transmissions will resume
Like many of you, I have good weeks and bad weeks on the writing front. This week has been rocky, and if
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I’m planning on starting Riverdale this week, and am tentatively looking forwards to it? Wish me luck~~
My Sunday Circle is here.
If Samurai was based on the serial by Eiji Yoshikawa, it’s a gorgeous story!
Regarding the BDLN, can you square off some time on the calendar this week on one of those days off for that and only that?
Kudos on rounding off the short stories, too!
Peter: It sounds like you’ve had a great week, but I can completely relate on the periods of vagueness – for me recently that’s been Facebook.. Get thee to a weekly checkpoint, sir! Maybe at least hone in on one book and get that thing smashed?
What am I working on this week?
This week sees more work on ADR for the film project, mentoring session, an exciting video game gig under NDA I’ve been beavering away on, and chasing up leads for commercial work once the finished commercial demo is sent over (recorded last week!) I’m also trying to progress video-making projects. Today is sitting down and reading through On Directing, as well as getting a small but welcome unsolicited gig out the door.
What’s Inspiring Me This Week?
Of all things, planning. I FINALLY sat down and did a monthly checkpoint a’la Accidental Creative, and it’s like something clicked in my head. I’ve been pretty good with quarterly checkpoints, and mostly with weekly checkpoints, but monthly checkpoints are an absolutely necessary course correction to keep steering toward the goals of the quarterly checkpoint (or away from them if they no longer fit) With a month’s goals in place, weekly checkpoints can become picking from a menu of remaining goals to get done. There’s no guarantee I’ll get what I’ve planned done, but I feel a hell of a lot more grounded for doing it.
Media-wise, it’s been a bit sparse. There are films out there I’m itching to see at the moment (Wonder Woman especially!) but I’ve been continuing to bury my head in the world of The Witcher for research.
I’m also pretty excited to be sitting down and reading through a giant chunk of a text I need in my brain. It’s something I’ve been needing to do for ages, rather than consume key texts in slices.
OOH. Also, the Welsh accent. Fell down a rabbit hole researching that last week, and it’s been somewhat of a blind spot for me.
What part of my project am I avoiding?
Could be doing more to reach out for cold leads for both video games and commercial work at the moment. Also prep for EOFY.