Category: writer at work

It was a struggle to get up for some reason yesterday, but I was only an hour late to my desk, so not too bad. As I opened the curtains,…

The only thing I really worked on on Friday was The Secret of Whitehorse Farm. And even then it was only pre-writing. Everything else was on binder work in Scrivener…

How can it be Friday already? Skipping a blog day will probably have something do do with it. The week has flown, but while I’d normally be wondering what I’d…

I didn’t miss a day because I was being idle. I missed a day because I was busy. ALL of Tuesday was spent finishing the hard-copy proofread for my client….

We didn’t do a great deal at the weekend. We did the shopping on Saturday and nipped in to see the band’s drummer. The next-door neighbour was having his chimney…

Before I carry on, I’d just like to say IT’S PUBLICATION DAY! Paper Roses, a Wordsworth short, is out today! You can buy it from Books2Read/DianeWordsworth. Right, after I posted…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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’…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Here’s the link for the Great Novella Challenge on Teachable. I didn’t sleep very well on Monday night. The room was too warm, the bed was too small, I had…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…