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 loaded up on jobs-that-take-up-writing-time, but-aren’t-writing this week, so I’m trying to keep my goals pretty minimal: another three scenes on Float, some revision and fleshing out on the smaller scenes that have already been written that don’t feel weighty enough to keep in the book in their current form.

What’s inspiring me this week?

Zootopia. I meant to see this when it first came out, but somehow never got around to it. I regret that, a bit. I’m really interested in the way they construct their world when they’re not engaging in the obvious cartoon conceits – I think it was Kathleen who first mentioned that it was a movie where people used cell phones like we use cell phones in real life, and…dear god, I hadn’t realised what a non-essential prop movie cell phones were until now.

What part of my project an I avoiding?

I’ve not had much luck correcting the sleep patterns and getting back to a routine thus far, and I fell out of the habit of going to food courts to write while friends were visiting from Melbourne last weekend. Paying for all of that right now, but still not going back to the bits of my routine that I know, for sure, will work.