0 30  2 Comments on Friday 7 February 2025: A publishing day
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Friday 7 February 2025: A publishing day

Yesterday turned into a bit of a publishing day. I still have a few books to get out before I push the publishing side of things to one side, and…

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Thursday 6 February 2025: Short n sweet

How can it be Thursday already? So, I didn’t move into the living room in the end to do the client edit on Tuesday. I remembered (and saw) the reading…

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Wednesday 5 February 2025: Nice and steady

We’ve started this 16:8 eating thing and it’s taking a bit of getting used to. For the most part, I’ll be having 2 light meals and 1 main meal in…

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Tuesday 4 February 2025: A bit of a whirl

So, at the end of Wednesday last week, Fallen Angel decided it didn’t want to be written yet. I’d made a start on the first chapter and managed 401 words….

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Monday 3 February 2025: Hello February!

At the time of writing I was still up against the clock with Book 3 of the great novella challenge. It was looking good, though, and definitely achievable. Tune in…

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Friday 31 January 2025: January wrap-up!

I’m up against the clock today, and yesterday, so just the wrap-up today. January wrap-up! create graphic for Hello January ✔️ create graphic for January wrap-up ✔️ new word-count spreadsheet…

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Thursday 30 January 2025: Deadline days

It was our first deadline day of the year yesterday for 12 Stories in 12 Months on Deadlines for Writers. I’d finished a very rough draft of the 1,200-word story…

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Wednesday 29 January 2025: Rhythm

I didn’t write up Tuesday’s blog post until Tuesday morning, thanks to my procrastination on Monday. Once it was written, I posted it and shared it. Then I allowed myself…

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Tuesday 28 January 2025: Good weekend

I didn’t do any work at the weekend. That’s one reason it was a good one. It meant I wasn’t so behind on anything that I felt the need to…

0 118  2 Comments on Monday 27 January 2025: Publication day!
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Monday 27 January 2025: Publication day!

I’m so stupidly pleased with myself that I got Words Worth Reading Issue Two out before the end of January. It’s had a couple of false starts over the past…

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Friday 24 January 2025: Friday already – again!

So before I did actually call it a day on Wednesday, I contacted Support at Google Play Books. The techie there had a good look at everything and asked me…

0 115  4 Comments on Thursday 23 January 2025: Slight change of plan
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Thursday 23 January 2025: Slight change of plan

I had one of those nights where I wake up from a deep sleep with a solution I didn’t even know I was looking for.  I’d already decided that I…

0 112  4 Comments on Wednesday 22 January 2025: A good, solid day
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Wednesday 22 January 2025: A good, solid day

I managed to get up before the alarm on Tuesday, which was a great start. But I wanted to finish reading a book for review. It’s a re-read because the…

0 121  2 Comments on Tuesday 21 January 2025: Exercises
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Tuesday 21 January 2025: Exercises

I had a late start yesterday. The poet was up early as he had a long drive ahead of him, and I made the mistake of going back to bed….

0 101  4 Comments on Monday 20 January 2025: Studying
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Monday 20 January 2025: Studying

We had an early start on Friday. It was the mother-in-law’s birthday and we wanted to take her card and gifts up before midday if possible, but the poet had…

0 125  2 Comments on Friday 17 January 2025: Life’s too short
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Friday 17 January 2025: Life’s too short

Once I’d fed the birds, had breakfast, got dressed, all those kinds of things, I checked in at my desk and went to collect the third lot of videos for…

0 125  2 Comments on Thursday 16 January 2025: Keeping busy
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Thursday 16 January 2025: Keeping busy

Before I did anything else yesterday morning, I threw several buckets of warm, soapy water at the patio to clean up some of the trash the birds had left during…

0 123  2 Comments on Wednesday 15 January 2025: Changes afoot
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Wednesday 15 January 2025: Changes afoot

Tuesday started well. And then it took a nosedive. But in a goodish way as it made me to a major rethink. As we were up early, I didn’t fancy…

0 128  2 Comments on Tuesday 14 January 2025: The thaw begins
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Tuesday 14 January 2025: The thaw begins

Over the weekend I’d kind of decided to take the pressure off myself and only write an assignment for the space opera workshop if something grabbed me. I’m really not…

0 126  2 Comments on Monday 13 January 2025: Space opera workshop starts today
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Monday 13 January 2025: Space opera workshop starts today

We had a late start on Friday. A very late start. And I’d finished work late the day before and not had chance to pre-write and schedule Friday’s blog post….

0 127  2 Comments on Friday 10 January 2025: To boldly go or not to boldly go…?
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Friday 10 January 2025: To boldly go or not to boldly go…?

And there we have it. The first full week of 2025 is done. It’s frightening, but a reminder that time waits for no man, so it certainly won’t wait for…

0 132  2 Comments on Thursday 9 January 2025: Ramblings
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Thursday 9 January 2025: Ramblings

Wednesday morning started well. The birds had their first feed of the day (they really are eating a lot in this snow) and I’d shared yesterday’s blog post within about…

0 136  2 Comments on Wednesday 8 January 2025: Plan to faff
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Wednesday 8 January 2025: Plan to faff

I really should know by now not to plan things too tightly. Or at least I should plan to faff as well. Maybe that way I’ll get more done. Yesterday…

0 137  2 Comments on Tuesday 7 January 2025: A good start
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Tuesday 7 January 2025: A good start

I packed a lot into the last 2 days of the week last week, and I packed a bit into the weekend as well. Saturday I was determined to have…

0 187  2 Comments on Monday 6 January 2025: Publication Day!
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Monday 6 January 2025: Publication Day!

So, I’m officially back from my annual Christmas holiday. We had a lovely break. I hope you had a great time too. Thursday and Friday of last week were gentle,…

0 161  2 Comments on Friday 2 January 2025: Hello January!
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Friday 2 January 2025: Hello January!

Most of yesterday was about 2024. Most of today has been about 2025. Or January 2025 at least. It took a bit of working through, and I’m not officially back…

0 168  2 Comments on Thursday 2 January 2025: 2024 Review & December wrap-up!
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Thursday 2 January 2025: 2024 Review & December wrap-up!

First of all, Happy New Year! A big thank you for reading over the past year (and before), and welcome on board (again!) for the coming year. Let’s hope it’s…

0 170  4 Comments on Friday 20 December 2024: Merry Christmas!
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Friday 20 December 2024: Merry Christmas!

Despite my best intentions, I didn’t get a lot done yesterday.  Yes, I uploaded a post, and I commented on a few. But much of the rest of the day…

0 151  2 Comments on Thursday 19 December 2024: Planning research complete
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Thursday 19 December 2024: Planning research complete

I’ve been down a research hole for pretty much the entire week looking for resources to help me with my planning and project management in the coming year. I’m delighted…

0 155  2 Comments on Tuesday 17 December 2024: Soap box alert!
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Tuesday 17 December 2024: Soap box alert!

We were away last week for a few days, down south in Faversham, which is only a few miles away from the south coast. We drove down on Tuesday, the…

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Wednesday 11 December 2024: 12 Stories in 12 Months

image created in CanvaPro I didn’t have any idea what to write about today as we were travelling for much of yesterday, from north to south. Very south. The morning…

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Tuesday 10 December 2024: Colds all round

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…

0 222  2 Comments on Monday 9 December 2024: Publication day!
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Monday 9 December 2024: Publication day!

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…