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Tuesday 5 November 2024: Bonfire Night!

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…

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Monday 4 November 2024: Publication day!

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…

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Friday 1 November 2024: Hello, November!

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…

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Thursday 31 October 2024: October wrap-up!

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…

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Wednesday 30 October 2024: Tax shouldn’t be taxing…

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…

0 76  2 Comments on Tuesday 29 October 2024: Writing and reading
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Tuesday 29 October 2024: Writing and reading

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…

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Monday 28 October 2024: Lazy weekend

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…

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Friday 25 October 2024: This n that

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…

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Thursday 26 October 2024: 33 Writing Prompts For April Stories

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’…

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Wednesday 23 October 2024: Slowly removing my digital footprint

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…

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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…

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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…

0 117  2 Comments on Friday 18 October 2024: Home again!
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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…

0 165  4 Comments on Wednesday 16 October 2024: Another writing challenge
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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…

0 139  2 Comments on Tuesday 15 October 2024: Horsham at night
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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…

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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…

0 164  4 Comments on Friday 11 October 2024: Friday again!
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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…

0 161  2 Comments on Thursday 10 October 2024: I wrote a(nother) short story!
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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…

0 149  2 Comments on Wednesday 9 October 2024: It’s deadline day! 😱
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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…

0 120  2 Comments on Tuesday 8 October 2024: Getting annoyed with things
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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…

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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….

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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…

0 136  2 Comments on Thursday 3 October 2024: Take one idea – St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne
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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….

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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…

0 174  2 Comments on Tuesday 1 October 2024: Hello, October!
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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…

0 184  6 Comments on Monday 30 September 2024: September wrap-up
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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…

0 202  4 Comments on Friday 27 September 2024: Getting on with stuff
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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…

0 202  4 Comments on Thursday 26 September 2024: 28 Writing Prompts For March Stories
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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…

0 268  8 Comments on Wednesday 25 September 2024: Such a waste of time!
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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…

0 166  2 Comments on Tuesday 24 September 2024: Busy doing nothing…
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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…

0 148  2 Comments on Monday 23 September 2024: A weekend in Cayton
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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…

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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…

0 182  2 Comments on Friday 20 September 2024: Still doing date work
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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….