August 2022 – Words Worth Writing

31 August 2022

The portable garden & the pop-up office

Last week we were in beautiful Northumberland on our holidays. We came home a day early so that we could pay for, sign for and collect the keys to our new house. There will be more information on both of these things either in future blog posts or via the newsletter – just as soon as the poet has copied...

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29 August 2022

Publication Day!

I’m still on holiday, but I still don’t let little things like that interrupt my publishing challenge. The Hitch Hiker, a Wordsworth Flash Fiction, is published today! And it’s another brand-new story. You can find all of my books on the BUY MY BOOKS tab on the blog, or you can go to www.books2read.com/DianeWordsworth. Sign up for my newsletter If...

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22 August 2022

Publication Day!

I may be on holiday at the moment, but I don’t let little things like that interrupt my publishing challenge. The Castle on the Hill, a Wordsworth Flash Fiction, is published today! And it’s another brand-new story. You can find all of my books on the BUY MY BOOKS tab on the blog, or you can go to www.books2read.com/DianeWordsworth. Sign...

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19 August 2022

We’re orf!

We’re off on our holidays, and when we get back we’re hopefully moving house (again – I know!). I’ve scheduled a couple of easy posts, but I should be back to full throttle by the time we’ve returned and maybe activated the internet at the new house. Son #2 will be dropping in while we’re away, and he might even...

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16 August 2022

Book Review: Diet Rebel

This feature is in association with NetGalley. Diet Rebel by Brian Harner Many thanks to NetGalley, the author and to BooksGoSocial for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of Diet Rebel. Before I even started to read this book I loved it. I loved the concept, I loved the thought of being a diet rebel, and I loved the...

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15 August 2022

Publication Day!

Blind Date, a Wordsworth Short, is published today! This is one of the complete stories I discovered recently. It’s one I wrote a long time ago when this kind of twist ending story was all the rage. I’m sure I did send it out, and I mostly got form reject letters, but I remember one editor saying it was a...

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11 August 2022

Just chillin’

The past few days have been all about chilling. I finished the editing job on Tuesday evening at about 7:30pm and it was back with the author by about 8pm, in 3 different files – one with full tracked changes; one with comments only; and one completely clean. I still have a way to go with this one, but I...

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9 August 2022

Diary of a Tiger: Tue 9 Aug 2022

Chapter 30: Tuesday 9 August – or ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ I worked really hard over the past week to finally shift those 2 massive jobs that were hanging over me. They were still there long after they should have gone due to those nasty technical issues I had a few weeks ago and then the backlog...

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8 August 2022

Publication Day!

Shaking the Tree, a Wordsworth Short, is published today! A long time ago I wrote a short story that I called The Spirit of the Wind, which was published in My Weekly. It was also published in Twee Tales and back at the start of this publishing challenge, it was Book 1 (although I released it after Book 2). Twee Tales was...

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2 August 2022

Diary of a Tiger: Tue 2 Aug 2022

Chapter 29: Tuesday 2 August August already, and already it’s a day old. I can hardly believe it. Friday I skipped a post on Friday because I was just so busy and focused all day on one thing: Editing. I did clear a massive load, though, and ended the day only about 130 pages from the end. (It’s a very...

diary of a tiger

1 August 2022

Publication Day!

Tea for Two, a Wordsworth Flash Fiction, is published today! This is another very short story I wrote a long time ago, and the first version was well over 2,000 words. I kept on chipping away at it until I was finally satisfied. It did do the rounds, back in the day, but in those days I was using a...

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