Category: writer at work

In between chapters on Sunday night, I made up a concoction of tuna chunks, oil and chicken gravy. Then I went for a quick walk in the dark to lay a gravy trail for the cat to follow back into the garden. Before the end of the night, we had a black cat in the garden and the dog really,...

Apparently I’m not supposed to write about how I had a bad writing day or how I didn’t write as much as I’d like. Apparently, I can only write about writing if it’s about technique or for recompense. Well, since when did that become a thing? This is MY blog, it’s on MY website, it’s got MY name on it,...

Yesterday was not a great day. On Wednesday night at around 11pm, we let the dog out for his last stretch of the day and, as usual, the cat went with him for a walk around the garden. Since we’ve moved to this house, she hasn’t really been out of the garden other than once when she accidentally got into...

I had another late start yesterday but I woke up with a determination to start working on at least one of my novels very soon. I can read and read and read the how-to books until I go cross-eyed, and I can watch a gazillion tutorials until they all blend into one. But none of this is actually getting the...

The first jobs I did yesterday were more Vocal and Medium work. I still hadn’t had a response for the short story I submitted to Medium last Thursday despite the publication in question publishing quite a few other stories between then and now. As I’ve not had it rejected either, I can only assume that they’re inundated and with that...

I didn’t manage to work through the night on Thursday. I was so poorly with the after effects of Covid that I gave up and went to bed. It was almost as debilitating as the disease itself. I had to fire off another apologetic excuse to the ghostwriting client, who was great about it as ever but still I felt...

Yay! We got the all clear yesterday, finally, when the poet tested negative for the second time on the trot. This means he can go to work, there will be a gig this week, and he can come shopping with me! More importantly, we can go and visit my mom at the weekend. If my brother and his family are...

I decided not to work late on Tuesday as I already knew I’d be working late on Wednesday and I didn’t want work to intrude that much. When I got to my desk on Wednesday, I tried to reply to a comment on here first, and I kept getting an internal error message. I wasted more hours than I should...

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 moment, they don’t auto-post to CounterSocial or Post.News. I don’t have Mastodon, and I’m unlikely to ever get it, mostly...

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 between ghostwriting, editing and my own writing, but I only managed a bit of editing and the rest of the...

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, if taking it easy still. To ease myself back in, and to refresh my memory, I re-read the last I’d...

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 outlines will be transferred to a new book, I just have to decide if they’re transferred to the notebook I...

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 did. There was a bit of an intention to do a some noodling on one of the novel ideas or...

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 during that mammoth session, so I didn’t have that to worry about. Payment was authorised and the next instalment contracted....

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 fired off an email with a new ETA and finished the chapter I was working on at midnight. I forgot...

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 get out of bed and so I stayed there longer than usual catching up on social media, emails, blog posts,...