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
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Diane Wordsworth: freelance writer ● novelist ● editor ● ghostwriter ● book reviewer ● member of the CWA ● world-famous nutter-magnet
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
Read moreChapter 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
Read moreChapter 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
Read moreChapter 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
Read moreChapter 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
Read moreChapter 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
Read moreChapter 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
Read moreChapter 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,
Read moreChapter 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
Read moreChapter 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
Read moreChapter 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
Read moreChapter 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
Read moreChapter 32: Wednesday 7 September – or ‘there should be a writing prompts post here but I don’t have one ready…’ Yesterday I didn’t have a book review ready, so I posted a diary update instead. Today I don’t have
Read moreChapter 31: Tuesday 6 September – or ‘there should be a book review here but I don’t have one ready…’ Wow, it’s been almost an entire month since my last diary post (9 August). That really is terrible. My excuse:
Read moreChapter 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
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