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?

Short story rewrites for the short piece I finished last Sunday. It’s a chaotic week, filled with book launches and other distractions, so I’m intentionally keeping the goals easy 🙂

What’s inspiring me this week?

While I’ve got no particular interest in playing Pokemon Go, I’ve been talking to people who are playing and engaging with a lot of the commentary surrounding it. It’s an incredibly intriguing phenomenon, in that it’s the first really large-scale augmented reality event that has a noticeable impact on on public spaces.

Overland’s essays, in particular, have been fascinating reading. I recommend checking out tbe essays on Pokemon Go and the Situationists and, particularly, the politics of digital gaming in public.

What part of my project an I avoiding?

I’ve been avoiding edits for the last four days, on account of…well, at this point it’s best described as “2016 doing its thing.” The next few weeks are going to be more interesting than planned, so I need to get a bit better at making time for writing things than I usually am.