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?

Two-part week for me: I’ve got an article deadline on Thursday, and a short story redraft that I set aside right before heading to Contact over the weekend. I’m about a quarter of the way through the rewrite, and I’d really like to get it finalized and out to beta-readers within the next two weeks.

What’s inspiring me this week?

I’m off to a con in mere minutes, so this weeks inspiration is a short list: The Coen Brother’s Hail, Caesar; Jason Sizemore’s memoir about being a small-press SF publisher, From Exposure; the glorious array of peeps I’ve had a chance to catch up with at Contact, including a larger number of folks who have been commenting here on the Sunday circle.

If you’re not in Brisbane this weekend, this is your official heads up that a couple of our regulars may be running late this week.

What part of my project an I avoiding?

I’ll be honest – despite blogging about it and thinking about it and talking about it, I was unprepared for the con this weekend. Because I was unprepared, I have not budgeted my usual I’ve spent the weekend around lots of people and now I need to decompress time. I’m walking out of the con and straight into writing work, day-job work, and housework, and I’m already tempted to start putting all of that off.

This is not idea. I absolutely need to figure out where that decompression is going to happen, else I will be the grumpiest of grumpy fuckers in the coming week.