Author: Diane

Chapter 44: Wednesday 19 October I had 2 lots of good news on Tuesday. First of all, I saw I’d sold some more books. This is amazing and it really is true that since I started to publish a book a week for a year, I’ve sold more books than I ever did in the previous 12 years. I was...

Chapter 43: Tuesday 18 October After working until 6:15am on Friday morning, I was pretty much a waste of food for the rest of the day. I went straight to bed, of course. But I didn’t get up again until around 1pm. I only had a couple of jobs to do, but they could all be moved to Monday this...

Chapter 42: Friday 14 October One of the things I wanted to get ahead on again was drafting these diary blogs during the day as I work and then auto-posting them the following morning at 8am. So in between chapters of the ghostwriting gig yesterday, I started today’s post. Some may suggest that I should work solidly on the ghostwriting...

Chapter 41: Thursday 13 October The blank planner and diary spreadsheets I adapted and printed off yesterday seem to be working already. I’m more focused and ticking things off again. I’ve tried to go down the electronic-only route, but it isn’t working for me. I’m better with a hard-copy diary of sorts, preferably with time slots. I’m still working through...

Chapter 40: Wednesday 12 October Despite how I felt by the end of yesterday, I did actually have quite a good day during which I got through quite a lot. I’d already finally made my new month wordcount spreadsheet and the words for Diary of a Tiger had a good leap as I added the words in retrospect. I also added...

Chapter 39: Tuesday 11 October Tuesdays are usually book review days on the blog, but as I don’t have any ready, I’m throwing up another diary post instead. Friday On Friday I managed to do some ghostwriting work, including the revisions for Part 2 of Book 11. I sent those back along with some notes. The poet had a gig...

Chapter 38: Friday 7 October I was going to save the last 2-day diary post and add it to today’s and make this one a 3-day post, but in the end I posted that one for yesterday and this one for today. I think I was worried that one post might drag on and on when the blog would have...

Chapter 37: Thursday 6 October – or ‘we still haven’t had much time in the new garden’ We haven’t really had a lot of time in the garden yet. When we finally did get some time, we were absolutely knackered, and then the weather took a bit of a wet turn. Fortunately, the poet had already cut the grass and...

Chapter 36: Tuesday 4 October – or ‘there should be another book review here, but I don’t have one ready’ By Friday we were both very tired and ready for the weekend. I, however, still had a lot of work to do. In the morning, the poet had meetings, but in between he started to change the address with various...

Chapter 35: Friday 30 September – or ‘at least I’m on the right day today’ Disaster! We both slept in. Really badly. So I didn’t get the early start I planned. However, I always think that if we do sleep in, then we were clearly tired and needed the rest. Or at least one of us did. It was really,...

Chapter 34: Thursday 29 September – or ‘there should be a “portable garden this week” post here, but we’ve not done anything yet…’ I managed to get some ghostwriting done on Tuesday and carried on after the poet got home until tea was ready. Then I went in to send an update to the client and saw that I’d promised...

Chapter 33: Wednesday 28 September – or ‘there should be another writing prompts post here but I STILL don’t have one ready…’ Gosh, so much has happened since my last Diary of a Tiger post on 7 September. We had already started to completely wind down for the house move, and then the queen passed away and I was glued...