Month: July 2017
Normal work continues
Friday disappeared into the ether and I think I may have faffed a little. I know I did some reading for the non-fiction book as well as some regular research…
Diary of a non-fiction book: week 1 – day 4
Yesterday’s work session began with me updating the raw text version of this Diary of …that will be coming out after it’s all over. I added yesterday morning’s post, and formatted…
Diary of a non-fiction book: week 1 – day 3
By Wednesday I started to get into the swing of things and was beginning to feel like a proper writer again, writing for a living and all that. I was…
52 books in 52 weeks: Writing your non-fiction book
I set myself the goal of reading and reviewing 52 writing guides over the year. Here is book 19. Alex Gazzola is already very well-known by many of us writers…
Diary of a non-fiction book: week 1 – day 2
Tuesday was a much better, more productive day. I finished my chores thirty minutes earlier than usual, so was able to do some catch-up work from Monday. The first thing…
Publication: the People’s Friend annual 2018
I’m delighted to report that I have a short story in this 2018 annual from The People’s Friend, out now. This is the first short story I ever sold to…
Diary of a non-fiction book: week 1 – day 1
The day didn’t get off to a great start. I’ve been fighting a cold and a “bit of a throat” for a couple of weeks and at the end of…
Diary of a non-fiction book: week 1 – the story so far
A few weeks ago (on or around 12 June in fact, so it was longer ago than I thought), I was editing a book for lovely-already-boss and one chapter in…
A week of ups and downs
It’s been a week of ups and downs this week, and a very busy one as a result. But there’s some good news in here too. Some very good news….
I found my writing mojo
This time last week I was feeling a bit annoyed with myself. I’d not done any proper work for a few weeks. So I pulled up my socks and gave…
52 books in 52 weeks: The Literary Agent’s Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal
I set myself the goal of reading and reviewing 52 writing guides over the year. Here is book 18. The Literary Agent’s Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal by…
52 books in 52 weeks: Blogging just for Writers
I set myself the goal of reading and reviewing 52 writing guides over the year. Here is book 17. When I started blogging, the only people who I knew that…
July throwaways
At the start of the week I did my usual think/query/write submit and I chose three topics to write articles on and three topics to write short stories around. Here…
Getting organised: Trello
Yesterday I realised I’d not done any writing in almost two weeks – not ANY writing at all … … well, I lied. I *did* actually write the structure for…
Disgraceful!
My work output just lately has been absolutely atrocious. I just this second updated my word-count spreadsheet for July, and I had to spend some time first putting in a…
