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 started writing again last week, doing my best to get at least a paragraph written every day on a novella project and a short story project.

This week I’m stacking a little more on: a redraft of the short story that I’ve got sitting there, waiting for me to flesh out its verbs and voices; tightening up the first quarter of the story draft I’ve just written; progressing the novella to the end of the first act in its current draft; writing an opening sequence for a thesis chapter.

The bigger challenge is actually writing myself a plan for doing all that and sticking to it. 

What’s inspiring me this week?

The second season of The Thrilling Adventures of Sabrina arrived on Netflix this week, and I remain utterly enthralled by the implications of this series and the changing state of TV narrative. 

It remains, as the first season did, a fascinating study in what can happen when you disconnect advertising revenue from the creative process–you cannot tell me that a high-quality drama about the inner workings of a Satanic church would have survived in an environment where revenue was driven by advertising dollars. 

And the characters remain outstanding, both in terms of casting and the arcs they’re pulling everyone through.

What action do I need to take?

So many of these at the moment, because Dad’s death and my sister’s illness through March, and the little coda of getting a cold last week, means that I feel like I’m behind on everything right now. However, since I can only fire up on thing at a time, I really need to look at the design of this site. I had a crash way back at the start of March, and the design for the site reverted to the look I was using back in 2010. I need to set aside a little time to rebuild, and freshen things up around the .com.