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?

There’s remarkably little happening this week, as I’m on holidays in Sunny Adelaide partaking of Adelaide Writers Week and the Adelaide Fringe Festival. I’ll be tucking some work on the redraft of Valiant around the edges, but this week is mostly focused on hanging with the family and talking to other writers.

What’s inspiring me this week?

I got into Adelaide just in time to catch Paolo Bacigalupi’s session on the opening day of Writers Week, and it was easily one of the five best things I’ve ever seen at a festival. The conversation largely focused on his latest book, The Water Knife, which looks at the future of water in the Western states of the USA, but within that it covered a wealth of details about his research methods, the thing that inspire him to write, and how he uses a multiplicity of characters to examine an issue from multiple perspectives. I filled four or five A4 pages with notes over the course of a one-hour interview.

What part of my project an I avoiding?

I go to Gladstone on the 10th of March, to spend a weekend talking to writers and other folks about blogging and author platform. I’ve done a bit of this in the past, in half-day and six-day programs, but I haven’t ever adapted the work to a one-day workshop and I really should put some thought into what that needs to look like.

That’s me. I may be a little slower on the responses this week, given the aforementioned holiday, but I’m always interested in hearing what everyone’s up to.