Category: writer at work
Tuesday 18 February 2025: Another proprietorial move
Over my first dirty cuppa of the morning I once again read a daily newspaper (on Readly). This does seem to be becoming an easy habit, which is good. Perhaps…

Monday 17 February 2025: ‘Albatross! Albatross! Alabatross…’
I was up on time on Friday and I read a daily newspaper over my first dirty cup of tea of the day. I didn’t play any games and I…
Friday 14 February 2025: Valentine’s Day!
It’s Valentine’s Day today and we have roses and cards in the house. We don’t have red (Lancaster) roses in our house, we have white, Yorkshire roses. (I’m married to…
Thursday 13 February 2025: Home!
I thought I’d have time to write up and post a blog by late morning, but I’m a bit late again. On Tuesday I closed work down early as we…
Wednesday 12 February 2025: Roadtrip
Image by Miriam Verheyden from Pixabay Monday was roadtrip time again. I didn’t post in detail about it before because of, you know, contents insurance. Or it being voided due…
Tuesday 11 February 2025: Fog
I had a lot of problems last week trying to upload the latest 3 books I’m publishing to Google Play Books. It was always so easy before, but I think…
Monday 10 February 2025: Publication day!
It’s publication day today for my VERY SHORT STORY Happy Valentine, Flash Fiction #12. This is a story I wrote a long time ago and it appeared in Flash Fiction…
Friday 7 February 2025: A publishing day
Yesterday turned into a bit of a publishing day. I still have a few books to get out before I push the publishing side of things to one side, and…
Thursday 6 February 2025: Short n sweet
How can it be Thursday already? So, I didn’t move into the living room in the end to do the client edit on Tuesday. I remembered (and saw) the reading…
Wednesday 5 February 2025: Nice and steady
We’ve started this 16:8 eating thing and it’s taking a bit of getting used to. For the most part, I’ll be having 2 light meals and 1 main meal in…
Tuesday 4 February 2025: A bit of a whirl
So, at the end of Wednesday last week, Fallen Angel decided it didn’t want to be written yet. I’d made a start on the first chapter and managed 401 words….
Monday 3 February 2025: Hello February!
At the time of writing I was still up against the clock with Book 3 of the great novella challenge. It was looking good, though, and definitely achievable. Tune in…
Friday 31 January 2025: January wrap-up!
I’m up against the clock today, and yesterday, so just the wrap-up today. January wrap-up! create graphic for Hello January ✔️ create graphic for January wrap-up ✔️ new word-count spreadsheet…
Thursday 30 January 2025: Deadline days
It was our first deadline day of the year yesterday for 12 Stories in 12 Months on Deadlines for Writers. I’d finished a very rough draft of the 1,200-word story…
Wednesday 29 January 2025: Rhythm
I didn’t write up Tuesday’s blog post until Tuesday morning, thanks to my procrastination on Monday. Once it was written, I posted it and shared it. Then I allowed myself…
Tuesday 28 January 2025: Good weekend
I didn’t do any work at the weekend. That’s one reason it was a good one. It meant I wasn’t so behind on anything that I felt the need to…
Monday 27 January 2025: Publication day!
I’m so stupidly pleased with myself that I got Words Worth Reading Issue Two out before the end of January. It’s had a couple of false starts over the past…
Friday 24 January 2025: Friday already – again!
So before I did actually call it a day on Wednesday, I contacted Support at Google Play Books. The techie there had a good look at everything and asked me…
Thursday 23 January 2025: Slight change of plan
I had one of those nights where I wake up from a deep sleep with a solution I didn’t even know I was looking for. I’d already decided that I…
Wednesday 22 January 2025: A good, solid day
I managed to get up before the alarm on Tuesday, which was a great start. But I wanted to finish reading a book for review. It’s a re-read because the…
Tuesday 21 January 2025: Exercises
I had a late start yesterday. The poet was up early as he had a long drive ahead of him, and I made the mistake of going back to bed….
Monday 20 January 2025: Studying
We had an early start on Friday. It was the mother-in-law’s birthday and we wanted to take her card and gifts up before midday if possible, but the poet had…
Friday 17 January 2025: Life’s too short
Once I’d fed the birds, had breakfast, got dressed, all those kinds of things, I checked in at my desk and went to collect the third lot of videos for…
Thursday 16 January 2025: Keeping busy
Before I did anything else yesterday morning, I threw several buckets of warm, soapy water at the patio to clean up some of the trash the birds had left during…
Wednesday 15 January 2025: Changes afoot
Tuesday started well. And then it took a nosedive. But in a goodish way as it made me to a major rethink. As we were up early, I didn’t fancy…
Tuesday 14 January 2025: The thaw begins
Over the weekend I’d kind of decided to take the pressure off myself and only write an assignment for the space opera workshop if something grabbed me. I’m really not…

Monday 13 January 2025: Space opera workshop starts today
We had a late start on Friday. A very late start. And I’d finished work late the day before and not had chance to pre-write and schedule Friday’s blog post….

Friday 10 January 2025: To boldly go or not to boldly go…?
And there we have it. The first full week of 2025 is done. It’s frightening, but a reminder that time waits for no man, so it certainly won’t wait for…
Thursday 9 January 2025: Ramblings
Wednesday morning started well. The birds had their first feed of the day (they really are eating a lot in this snow) and I’d shared yesterday’s blog post within about…
Wednesday 8 January 2025: Plan to faff
I really should know by now not to plan things too tightly. Or at least I should plan to faff as well. Maybe that way I’ll get more done. Yesterday…
Tuesday 7 January 2025: A good start
I packed a lot into the last 2 days of the week last week, and I packed a bit into the weekend as well. Saturday I was determined to have…
Monday 6 January 2025: Publication Day!
So, I’m officially back from my annual Christmas holiday. We had a lovely break. I hope you had a great time too. Thursday and Friday of last week were gentle,…
Friday 2 January 2025: Hello January!
Most of yesterday was about 2024. Most of today has been about 2025. Or January 2025 at least. It took a bit of working through, and I’m not officially back…