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Tuesday 7 Feb 2023: Technology fails everywhere
I’ve been trialling Buffer for auto-posting blog posts to social media and, in the main, it’s doing all right. As a free customer, I can only link to three SM accounts which, at the moment, is enough because, at the
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Monday 6 Feb 2023: Back to normal(ish)
Well, I’m back to normal. The lurgy house is still going strong, but I have work to do and I’m already going to be a week late. I didn’t do a lot of work on Friday. I wanted to alternate
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Friday 3 Feb 2023: Sea air
So I sort of got back to work yesterday but by 3pm all I’d done was yesterday’s blog post. Oh yes, and I fired off an email to the ghostwriting client to let them know I was back at work,
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Thursday 2 Feb 2023: Back to work… of a fashion
Before he went to work yesterday, the poet tested himself for Covid and the result was negative. So off he pootled, and on his way home he called at his mother’s to drop in some test kits and he went
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Wednesday 1 Feb 2023: Day 3 in the lurgy house
Early Monday afternoon I went to bed not feeling very well at all. We assumed I’d caught the poet’s throat, but when he got home, he took my temperature and it was 101°F. So I did a test and I
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Tuesday 31 Jan 2023: Publication Day!
It was a good gig on Friday night at the band’s original local. There was a great crowd with even a few surprise guests, which made it all the more enjoyable. Late night, though, although not as late as many.
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Monday 30 Jan 2023: bar graphs and pie charts
After I’d finished work on Thursday, I took my pile of short story notebooks into the living room to do some more consolidating, and I think I’m up to date now with all of the ideas, topics, and outlines. Story
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Friday 27 Jan 2023: new publication started
I’d stayed up a bit late to get the short story submitted in time to the writing challenge, and that meant getting up late the next day as well. Once at my desk, though, I rattled through the faffy stuff,
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Thursday 26 Jan 2023: 12 stories in 12 months
Most of Tuesday was taken up with the date work and getting all of that up to date. It didn’t finish at tea time, though. I had another webinar to go to, this one on short stories, and then I
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Wednesday 25 Jan 2023: Date work + Writing prompts
The Scrivener/Save the Cat webinar wasn’t quite what I was expecting, but it was a free seminar and there was still some useful stuff in there. I just would have liked to see more about how to use Save the
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Tuesday 24 Jan 2023: I had a weekend off!
I might have had a raving busy week last week, but one thing is for sure: Being busy in the week and completing all of your jobs mean you get to take the weekend off. And that’s absolutely what I
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Monday 23 Jan 2023: More short stories
I worked until 4:30am Friday morning on ‘Thursday’, and that meant I had a long lie-in on Friday. I didn’t wake up until midday! And I still had work to do. Fortunately, I’d submitted Part 2 of GW Book 12
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Friday 20 Jan 2023: Promising myself a treat once I finish…
I spent a lot of time on Wednesday faffing with Trello when I should have been ghostwriting. By about 11pm, I realised I still had too much work to do on the ghostwriting to work through the night, so I
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Thursday 19 Jan 2023: Brrr!
Yesterday I managed to post a book review, so today is another two-day blog post. Tuesday After a few flurries of snow the day before, when we woke up on Tuesday it was blummin FREEZING. I really didn’t want to
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Book Review: One Enchanted Evening
This feature is in association with NetGalley. One Enchanted Evening by Katie Fforde Many thanks to NetGalley and to Random House UK, Cornerstone, Century for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of One Enchanted Evening. This is the first time
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