Category: writer at work

I ended up being lazy yesterday. I was still very tired after the clocks going forward and I couldn’t really get going. So I did a load of faff stuff, like the diary and the weekly scan and backup. I caught up on competition entries, and I caught up on blog post comments.  The biggest job I did do yesterday...

We had a busy weekend that started on Thursday night really. We went out to see a band but the place was far too packed and the sound was far too quiet. We ended up leaving before the end of the first set. I can’t understand why venues have to pack a place to the rafters and I don’t believe...

I’ve had a good run this week for getting up either early or on time and yesterday was no exception. I was also at my desk bang on 10am. Starting at 10am gives me some time to do some household chores as well as time to faff. On Wednesday I tried using the Novelist app on a different browser, and...

I was up relatively early again on Tuesday and, again, I got through a lot of stuff on the phone over breakfast because I knew pretty much what I would be doing for most of the rest of the day. When I got to my desk, however, I remembered that I hadn’t done any writing prompts for two weeks. So...

We were up relatively early on Monday as the poet was off on another trip away, this time down south. I had intended on going back to bed once he’d gone, but the dog decided to wolf down a big drink of water and ended up throwing it all back up again. So I got up and stayed up. I...

I was doing really well on Friday morning. I got up at 7:30am, all by myself (the poet was away), got dressed, etc, fed the animals, made myself a hot drink, did a quick dog poo patrol (so the workmen didn’t have to negotiate any fresh deposits), and trotted outside to move the car so that it was off the...

I’m always tired on Thursdays, I always have been. I’ve never known why, but it’s a regular phenomenon. So I can’t really blame getting up earlier than usual this week, although I’m sure that doesn’t help matters. We were up again at 7:30am yesterday because (a) the builders were coming back at 8am to do more work on the conservatory,...

We were up with the lark yesterday, because workmen replacing the conservatory were due at 8am. We got up at 7:30am (okay, it’s up with the lark for us, even if the lark has already been up for hours), and the men were already sitting at the end of the drive. I had to move my car once the poet...

Tuesday was better. What more can I say? Other than it wasn’t difficult. Again, much of the day was spent on the hard-copy edit. I only had 18 pages to go but they weren’t as polished as the previous pages and, again, I had a lot of interruptions. The biggest interruption was the Monkey Dust gig that was cancelled. I...

Mondays are always good days as far as my work is concerned. They usually seem to be the most productive day all week. Apart from yesterday. Yesterday it looks as though I hardly did anything. However, much of the day was spent editing the last 32 pages of the hard-copy edit… only there were still 18 pages left by the...

It carried on snowing through Thursday night and was really deep by Friday morning, so I actually spent a lot of time looking at and photrographing the snow too. The dog wanted to go and run through it all but he kept on getting stuck, so the poet went out and cleared a path for him… Needless to say, the...

I’m sure you’ll all be delighted to know that the snow I ordered arrived in good time for my birthday. I got up early just so I could watch it through the window for longer. It carried on snowing heavily until arount 1pm when it thinned out and got a bit watery. It started again, though. The snow was supposed...

It’s my birthday today. Again! It comes around every year, but it doesn’t seem five minutes since my last birthday post. I’ve already been treated to a trip to see Disney on Ice in Leeds, plus my Plottr registration has been renewed for another year, I have flowers, I’ve been eating sweeties all week, we’re going out for a meal...

I didn’t big-up the Monkey Dust admin enough on Monday. When I write it like that, it looks like quite a small job, but it’s actually a big-ish job. First of all I had to check when the next gig is and then add that to Diane’s Gig List (which I don’t manage anymore but I do share each week)....

What a great and busy weekend we had. We took the cat to the vet at teatime on Friday. It doesn’t matter what we say or what we do, they always make me feel as though we should be doing more for our pets. And they’re always so serious. I know they have a lot of serious stuff to deal...

The last job I did on Thursday was finalise the three editing samples with tracked changes I did for an editing job I liked the look of. These weren’t paid or even free sample edits, they were examples of previous editing work. I’d forgotten how slow Word is these days with tracked files. It took me a few goes to...

Oh, my goodness. I had such a busy day on Thursday. I had a full and good night’s sleep for a change and could have quite happily got up an hour earlier than I usually do. But the poet was having a late start after a long week already and if we didn’t need to be up with the larks,...

The ghostwriting client confirmed safe receipt of both Part 4 and the bonus short story on Thursday, saying they would send it to editorial and let me know if there were any issues. By Saturday morning, I hadn’t heard back from them so I nipped on to Amazon to see what the last book was that they published for the...