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.
