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Category: writer at work

Tuesday 7 Feb 2023: Technology fails everywhere

7 February 2023 Diane writer at work

I’ve been trialling Buffer for auto-posting blog posts to social media and, in the main, it’s doing all right. As a free customer, I can only link to three SM accounts which, at the moment, is enough because, at the

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Monday 6 Feb 2023: Back to normal(ish)

6 February 2023 Diane writer at work

Well, I’m back to normal. The lurgy house is still going strong, but I have work to do and I’m already going to be a week late. I didn’t do a lot of work on Friday. I wanted to alternate

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Friday 3 Feb 2023: Sea air

3 February 2023 Diane writer at work

So I sort of got back to work yesterday but by 3pm all I’d done was yesterday’s blog post. Oh yes, and I fired off an email to the ghostwriting client to let them know I was back at work,

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Thursday 2 Feb 2023: Back to work… of a fashion

2 February 2023 Diane writer at work

Before he went to work yesterday, the poet tested himself for Covid and the result was negative. So off he pootled, and on his way home he called at his mother’s to drop in some test kits and he went

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Monday 30 Jan 2023: bar graphs and pie charts

30 January 2023 Diane writer at work

After I’d finished work on Thursday, I took my pile of short story notebooks into the living room to do some more consolidating, and I think I’m up to date now with all of the ideas, topics, and outlines. Story

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Friday 27 Jan 2023: new publication started

27 January 2023 Diane writer at work

I’d stayed up a bit late to get the short story submitted in time to the writing challenge, and that meant getting up late the next day as well. Once at my desk, though, I rattled through the faffy stuff,

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Tuesday 24 Jan 2023: I had a weekend off!

24 January 2023 Diane writer at work

I might have had a raving busy week last week, but one thing is for sure: Being busy in the week and completing all of your jobs mean you get to take the weekend off. And that’s absolutely what I

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Monday 23 Jan 2023: More short stories

23 January 2023 Diane writer at work

I worked until 4:30am Friday morning on ‘Thursday’, and that meant I had a long lie-in on Friday. I didn’t wake up until midday! And I still had work to do. Fortunately, I’d submitted Part 2 of GW Book 12

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Friday 20 Jan 2023: Promising myself a treat once I finish…

20 January 2023 Diane writer at work

I spent a lot of time on Wednesday faffing with Trello when I should have been ghostwriting. By about 11pm, I realised I still had too much work to do on the ghostwriting to work through the night, so I

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Thursday 19 Jan 2023: Brrr!

19 January 2023 Diane writer at work

Yesterday I managed to post a book review, so today is another two-day blog post. Tuesday After a few flurries of snow the day before, when we woke up on Tuesday it was blummin FREEZING. I really didn’t want to

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Tuesday 17 Jan 2023: Snowdrops (not ours in the pic)

17 January 2023 Diane writer at work

Despite having ‘no plans beyond shopping’, we had a really busy weekend in the end. Saturday On Saturday we got up early (yes, really – at the weekend!) and we headed out to Murderhell (Meadowhall – it always used to

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Monday 16 Jan 2023: Current WIP

16 January 2023 Diane writer at work

Well, it seems that the WP to Buffer auto-shares worked okay, and I didn’t even have to check because I received not one but five emails (5): one from WordPress telling me my scheduled post had published; one from Buffer

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Friday 13 Jan 2023: Testing things

13 January 2023 Diane writer at work

I hit the ground running yesterday and went straight into faffing… Pomodoros Don’t forget, these pomodoros are 50 minutes each rather than 25 minutes each, short breaks are 10 minutes, and long breaks are 60 minutes. Pomodoro 1 On Wednesday

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Thursday 12 Jan 2023: Dog shenanigans

12 January 2023 Diane writer at work

The dog disturbed me several times during the night and that meant I didn’t get as much sleep as I’d like. The poet manages to sleep right through all of the shenanigans and often doesn’t know what I’m talking about

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Wednesday 11 Jan 2023: All clean!

11 January 2023 Diane writer at work

The poet went into the office today, so that meant we were up earlier and that meant I was at my desk earlier. Pomodoros Don’t forget, these pomodoros are 50 minutes each rather than 25 minutes each, short breaks are

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