Category: writer at work

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

First of all, Happy New Year! A big thank you for reading over the past year (and before), and welcome on board (again!) for the coming year. Let’s hope it’s…

Despite my best intentions, I didn’t get a lot done yesterday.  Yes, I uploaded a post, and I commented on a few. But much of the rest of the day…

I’ve been down a research hole for pretty much the entire week looking for resources to help me with my planning and project management in the coming year. I’m delighted…

We were away last week for a few days, down south in Faversham, which is only a few miles away from the south coast. We drove down on Tuesday, the…

image created in CanvaPro I didn’t have any idea what to write about today as we were travelling for much of yesterday, from north to south. Very south. The morning…

Well, I said we’d catch up on the weekend today, but the truth is we didn’t do very much at all. After his 4-day trip away, the poet was full…

Yes! It’s another publication day today. The City of Glasgow is another story I wrote for 12 Stories in 12 Months. We were given the prompt (1852) and the word-count…

I’m still trying to catch up with the blog, but I think I’m getting there. I spent a couple of hours on Thursday at teatime watching Flight FR2088 coming back…

The bright-eyed and bushy-tailed may have noticed that the blog is running a bit behind at the moment, about half a day behind. This is because I’ve been writing it…

Isn’t my 12-project planner wonderful? I keep mentioning it, so I thought I ought to at least give you a hint of what it looks like. This image is of…

  Gosh, what a lot of catching up I have to do today…Where did I leave you? Oh yes, Wednesday… I didn’t feel very well on Wednesday. During Monday night…

I only have 3 full weeks in December of work, then we break up for our annual 2-week Christmas holiday. So there’s less time in which to do as much…

November didn’t go quite as planned.  Grand-doggy #1 didn’t come for a fortnight, but he did come for a few days. All Monkey Dust gigs were cancelled or postponed, so…