Friday 29 August 2025: August wrap-up!

So August flew by, didn’t it?

The new schedule seems to have worked. A lot. However, when we lost the internet, work was taking longer than it needed to and a couple of things were dropped in the last week or so.

We sacked the flylady. Twice. She was rubbish. But we have a new one starting on Monday. (!) And the daily competitions got binned because those are done online and I wasn’t wasting my hotspot time entering competitions.

I only finished the hard copy edit for one of the client jobs. I hadn’t even started the electronic copy edit for the other one when the author let me know he’d completely overhauled his book and would be sending me a new version. (I’m still waiting…) At the time of writing, I didn’t get around to the electronic edit on the the one I finished the hard copy edit for.

Par for the course, I didn’t manage to start the third project management book.

August wrap-up!

Here, then, is how August went:

• create graphic for Hello August ✅
• create graphic for August wrap-up ✅
• trip to Evesham ✅
• (week) daily blog post ✅
• (week) daily flylady hour ✅❎
• (week) daily competitions ✅❎
• client edit x 2 ✅❎
• pre-write Book 10 for the Great Novella Challenge ✅
• write Story 8 for 12 STORIES IN 12 MONTHS ✅
• start PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR WRITERS: GATE 3 ❎
• Monkey Dust admin x1 ✅
• share Diane’s gig list every Thursday ✅
• weekly diary work ✅
• weekly backup ✅
• weekly finance work ✅
• weekly publishing work ✅
• Monkey Dust gig x3 ✅
• write Book 10 for the Great Novella Challenge ✅
• monthly schedule planning for September ✅
• advance finances for September ✅
• update 36-project spreadsheet (week) daily ✅
• publish book x3 ✅
• take car for MOT ✅
• take campervan for MOT ✅
• writing workshop x3 ✅
• hair appointment ✅

Extras
• 3 assignments for 3-week writing workshop ✅
• argue the toss with internet provider several times ✅
• negotiate desk rental in community centre for remote working ✅
• take campervan for repair work to get it through its MOT ✅

I published 3 books in August: 2 short stories and 1 collection of short stories. The first book that was published in August, a short story, was done in July. Next month I’ll report on the number of books actually published in September rather than published in advance.

I wrote 20,812 words in August and I edited 21 pages.

How was your August?