Category: writer at work

My flylady hours are a bit stunted this week. I’m still spending time doing quick and easy things, but I’m not concentrating on a room a day. But only for…

A lot of our friends have 2-gig weekends. Many have 3-gig weekends. And when there’s a bank holiday, they have 4- or 5-gig weekends, some with 2 gigs in one…

Phew! What a busy day I had yesterday. And I thought it would all be so quick and simple too. Serves me right for being such a perfectionist, I suppose….

I had a bit to catch up on yesterday, the first of which was yesterday’s blog post. I had all intentions on getting today’s done yesterday too, but here I…

Yesterday seems like quite a while ago, probably because it was a busy day.  Much of the day for me was taken up with writing. I even had a stunted…

It’s publication day today for my SHORT STORY The Ace of Swords, Short Tarot Tale #3.  This story is Fal’s backstory, the policeman in the Stevie Beck/Horvale cosy mysteries.  The…

It’s Friday today and I think I may finally be up to date. Yay! Saying that, yesterday does seem to have disappeared down a dark hole. The day started okayish….

Well, it’s Thursday already, and I’m only just catching up on this week. At least it is this week, though, and not last week still. The weekend Monkey Dust had…

I’m way behind on the blog posts at the moment. I’ll try and keep them short and sweet so that I can catch up a bit. Last Tuesday By the…

Well, the weekly blog posts went a bit awry a bit quick there. I did notice in time to change the publication date of the bookazine, so that I could…

We had a Very Busy weekend. Saturday On Saturday, we took our Covid tests, and once we had the go ahead, we went out and did the shopping, via the…

And here we are already, in the last few days of July. I have a calendar on the wall over my desk. It’s a Christmas gift every year from the…

Slow start to the day yesterday. We’re both still really struggling with Covid, and neither of us is definitely clear of it yet. We both think we can do something,…

With the poet testing positive for Covid on Thursday evening, first job Friday morning was moving a couple of dental appointments around. I was supposed to be in yesterday afternoon…

Everything was going really well. I was getting through my work and I wasn’t feeling stressed. Nothing was left waiting. I was managing to shift it all. Yesterday, the day…

We had a very late night on Tuesday, for some reason, which resulted in us both struggling to get up on Wednesday. We had to drag ourselves out of bed,…

The day started well again yesterday. Especially when we woke to see it had rained. Yay! I began the work day with revisiting the diary again and lumping jobs all…

I think we’ll start with some good news today. Well, good news for me at least. We got back from Stratford a week ago on Saturday. Between then and yesterday,…

Honestly, blink and you miss it these days. While Friday does seem a long time ago, I seem to have completely missed the weekend… I had a lot to do…

And just like that…it’s Friday again! Crikey. I feel as though I’ve wasted an entire week, but actually, I should stop beating myself up. I spent several days working on…

First job Wednesday morning, after feeding the dog and the birds, was Week 3 of the 50 crime mystery prompts workshop. This is the final workshop in this course. I…

Before I went into hospital back at the beginning of March, I’d lost 8lb on the 16:8 ‘diet’. When I came out of hospital, I had to take it easy…

After a lovely break in Stratford last week, yesterday was back to normal, apart from having grand-doggy #1 with us to get us up on time. We were both exhausted…

When I got up on Wednesday, my response to Assignment 3 for the 50 MURDER mystery prompts workshop hadn’t come back, although he did acknowledge my submission early Sunday evening….