Words Worth Writing

Well, I said we’d catch up on the weekend today, but the truth is we didn’t do very much at all. After his 4-day trip away, the poet was full…

Yes! It’s another publication day today. The City of Glasgow is another story I wrote for 12 Stories in 12 Months. We were given the prompt (1852) and the word-count…

I’m still trying to catch up with the blog, but I think I’m getting there. I spent a couple of hours on Thursday at teatime watching Flight FR2088 coming back…

The bright-eyed and bushy-tailed may have noticed that the blog is running a bit behind at the moment, about half a day behind. This is because I’ve been writing it…

Isn’t my 12-project planner wonderful? I keep mentioning it, so I thought I ought to at least give you a hint of what it looks like. This image is of…

  Gosh, what a lot of catching up I have to do today…Where did I leave you? Oh yes, Wednesday… I didn’t feel very well on Wednesday. During Monday night…

I only have 3 full weeks in December of work, then we break up for our annual 2-week Christmas holiday. So there’s less time in which to do as much…

November didn’t go quite as planned.  Grand-doggy #1 didn’t come for a fortnight, but he did come for a few days. All Monkey Dust gigs were cancelled or postponed, so…

Topical & evergreen ideas editors want to see Every month I do a think/write/submit writing exercise. I usually ‘think’ around 6 months ahead, which means in November, I’m ‘thinking’ May, ‘writing’…

So, Tuesday was all about poor communication and rubbish customer service. Wednesday was all about technology failing… I reminded myself that Mercury was now in retrograde and wondered if that…

Yesterday started well. We were both up in good time, we had breakfast before work started, and we were both pretty much at our desks in good time.  The first…

I was busy on Friday trying to catch up with everything. I wrote Friday’s blog, chose the picture, published it, then shared it. I did a quick 5-minute tech declutter….

Once we were up and about yesterday morning, the first thing the poet tried to do was charge the battery on my car…but he couldn’t get the door to open….

We were up with the lark on Wednesday because the plumber was coming. He got here at 10am and had to crawl up into the loft. The loft hatch is…

It started to snow at about 6pm on Monday and continued through the night. By morning, it had stopped and was starting to thaw. My watch told me it would…

After a busy and lazy weekend we struggled to get up on Monday. And while I was having breakfast, I wandered off down another rabbit hole, this time watching a…

I took 2 days off last week, but that didn’t necessarily mean I didn’t do any work. Thursday morning we took the dog back to his humans. On the way…

Because I fell down a rabbit hole on Tuesday, I didn’t get around to yesterday’s blog post until yesterday. I collected and replied to some comments on my gardening post,…

Everything was all going so well too…But at least I was ahead, which probably had something to do with it as well. We were woken on Tuesday morning by something…

It was a struggle to get up for some reason yesterday, but I was only an hour late to my desk, so not too bad. As I opened the curtains,…

The only thing I really worked on on Friday was The Secret of Whitehorse Farm. And even then it was only pre-writing. Everything else was on binder work in Scrivener…

How can it be Friday already? Skipping a blog day will probably have something do do with it. The week has flown, but while I’d normally be wondering what I’d…

I didn’t miss a day because I was being idle. I missed a day because I was busy. ALL of Tuesday was spent finishing the hard-copy proofread for my client….

We didn’t do a great deal at the weekend. We did the shopping on Saturday and nipped in to see the band’s drummer. The next-door neighbour was having his chimney…

Before I carry on, I’d just like to say IT’S PUBLICATION DAY! Paper Roses, a Wordsworth short, is out today! You can buy it from Books2Read/DianeWordsworth. Right, after I posted…

When I wrote up yesterday’s blog post, yesterday, I couldn’t remember what I’d spent most of Wednesday doing. And then I remembered. It was budget day in the UK on…

I filed my tax return yesterday. Outside of finalising, publishing and sharing yesterday’s blog post, this was the first thing I did. Despite me doing all of the leg work…

With nowhere to sit yesterday morning, because most of the living room furniture was stacked in the dining room and I couldn’t get to any of the dining furniture, the…

Our internet is shocking at the moment. The entire village have been complaining, despite high-speed cables being laid beneath the roads in recent months. We’re getting all the upheaval of…

Much of Friday was spent finishing my wonderful spreadsheet – and it truly is marvellous. I keep wanting to look at it, to touch it, to play with the figures…

I started to write this with a view to publishing it yesterday, but it got longer and longer and longer and I still had to write yesterday’s Writing Prompts. So…

Topical & evergreen ideas editors want to see Every month I do a think/write/submit writing exercise. I usually ‘think’ around 6 months ahead, which means in October, I’m ‘thinking’ April, ‘writing’…

Once I ran out of daylight on Monday, I put the date work to one side to cool. Usually I go through and choose 5 of the anniversaries for my…