Author: Diane
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
Thursday 19 September 2024: Date work
I didn’t even bother trying to take the dog on a ‘walk to work’ yesterday. He’s happy enough zooming around the gardens and so long as his collar’s off, he’ll…
Wednesday 18 September 2024: Tidying my Scrivener binders
Today’s image was a free image from DepositPhotos. I liked it, even if I don’t know what’s in the glass… We both woke up with aches and pains everywhere yesterday….