Tuesday 22 October 2024: Lots of planning work
First job on Monday was Monday’s blog post. I’d started it on Friday and intended to complete it over the weekend as I worked. As I didn’t work at the…
Monday 21 October 2024: Leisurely weekend
I forgot to mention in Friday’s post that on Wednesday the money I was owed by Vocal landed in my bank account. On Thursday morning, another job I did from…
Friday 18 October 2024: Home again!
I was a day behind all week on my blog posts, so when the poet finished his work on Wednesday and we decided to head home on Thursday, I didn’t…
Wednesday 16 October 2024: Another writing challenge
I didn’t sleep very well on Monday night. The room was too warm, the bed was too small, I had a gazillion things on my mind trying to remember to…
Tuesday 15 October 2024: Horsham at night
We had to cancel Saturday’s Monkey Dust gig due to the poet losing his voice. He’d had a cold all week and had cancelled band practice on Thursday in order…
Monday 14 October 2024: Northern Lights
We had a late night on Thursday, binge watching something on Netflix. Fortunately, it meant we were still up to watch one of the apparently best ever shows of the…
Friday 11 October 2024: Friday again!
So it’s Friday again already! [sigh!] This week seems to have flown by. I didn’t bake any cookies on Wednesday night but I did make the pear sponge. We were…
Thursday 10 October 2024: I wrote a(nother) short story!
When I got up yesterday I was convinced it was Tuesday. I still had my story to write for 12 STORIES IN 12 MONTHS. But it was fine, I still…
Wednesday 9 October 2024: It’s deadline day! 😱
I had such a leisurely start yesterday, not rushing or worrying. I mean, I had ALL day to write a story that was due in today, and I’d already done…
Tuesday 8 October 2024: Getting annoyed with things
Monday morning began with me finalising the outline for THE MYSTERY AT HORTON EDGE on Story Plotter on my tablet, which I did straight after breakfast while still in my…
Monday 7 October 2024: A new week
I started the job of deleting my stories from Vocal on Thursday, after I’d scheduled Friday’s post to publish, beginning with the date-specific topical stories that won’t make sense now….
Friday 4 October 2024: That was the week that was
I skipped a few more regular daily posts over the past couple of days due to the September wrap-up, the Hello October, the book review, and the Take One Idea…
Thursday 3 October 2024: Take one idea – St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne
How to farm 50 more ideas to write about from just one Last week I wrote about 28 ideas you can write about that will be topical in March 2025….
Wednesday 2 October 2024: Book review
Book review: COMING HOME TO THE WINDMILL BY THE SEA by Caroline Young This feature is in association with NetGalley. Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting…
Tuesday 1 October 2024: Hello, October!
I do love autumn. I love the fact the nights are drawing in. I love cosying up in front of the fire. My breakfast cereal starts to have hot milk…
Monday 30 September 2024: September wrap-up
September disappeared a bit sharpish off the scale and I suddenly realised that the end of the month was upon us. Today’s post is short and sweet, but here’s how…
Friday 27 September 2024: Getting on with stuff
I skipped a regular daily post yesterday because the writing ideas post is such a long one. Next week, I’ll share the ‘take one idea’ post for March too. I’ve…
Thursday 26 September 2024: 28 Writing Prompts For March Stories
Topical & evergreen ideas to write about that editors want to see Welcome back to an old favourite! Every month I do a think/write/submit writing exercise. I usually ‘think’ around…
Wednesday 25 September 2024: Such a waste of time!
We were up fairly early yesterday due to a dermatology appointment for me at the hospital – the first of 3 this week. But I didn’t have time to get…
Tuesday 24 September 2024: Busy doing nothing…
(Note: I did a tap dance once to I’M BUSY DOING NOTHING, and wore a pair of dungarees my mom’d had made for the occasion. Hence today’s picture…) I seem…
Monday 23 September 2024: A weekend in Cayton
I didn’t get around to a lot of work on Friday as I already knew we were on a tight schedule to get to Friday’s camp site. We had to…
Friday 20 September 2024: Book review
Book review: A POCKETFUL OF DIAMONDS by Pam Lecky This feature is in association with NetGalley. Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting me see an advance…
Friday 20 September 2024: Still doing date work
I was late again publishing the day’s blog post, as I’d left it dangling the night before. I finalised that and got it posted, then started on today’s straight away….
Thursday 19 September 2024: Date work
I didn’t even bother trying to take the dog on a ‘walk to work’ yesterday. He’s happy enough zooming around the gardens and so long as his collar’s off, he’ll…
Wednesday 18 September 2024: Tidying my Scrivener binders
Today’s image was a free image from DepositPhotos. I liked it, even if I don’t know what’s in the glass… We both woke up with aches and pains everywhere yesterday….
Tuesday 17 September 2024: A day at the races?
We had a fairly busy weekend with the dog. Once we’d both finished work on Friday we took him for a walk before tea. But on Saturday we had a…
Monday 16 September 2024: Reading and writing and submitting
We had a lovely surprise on Friday when Son #2 brought Grand-doggy #1 to stay with us. He called the day before to make sure we’d remembered. I thought it…
Friday 13 September 2024: Friday the 13th
It’s Friday the 13th today. Friday the 13th bothers me that much, I didn’t even register it until I saw something on Facebook. I don’t know where yesterday went but…
Thursday 12 September 2024: Networking
First job of the day yesterday was to work on the story for 12 STORIES IN 12 MONTHS and get it submitted. I was right at the end of revising…
Wednesday 11 September 2024: WORDS WORTH READING Issue One out now!
It’s been a while since I made any promotional material. I forgot to do this for Monday’s post, forgot it yesterday, but remembered it today…(Well, I remembered it yesterday really,…
Tuesday 10 September 2024: Bonus work time
I had bonus work time Monday morning as before I’d even got out of bed there was a text message from my dentist saying the hygienist was poorly and could…
Monday 8 September 2024: A weekend in Mablethorpe
Friday disappeared a bit sharpish. I’m glad to say that I did indeed clear the proofs for the client edit I’ve been working on, leaving just the plates to proofread…
Friday 6 September 2024: More learning
I had a last minute dental appointment to attend yesterday (not an emergency) at 12:15pm, but the Tour of Britain bike race was starting at 11am, finishing at around 2pm,…