Category: writer at work
Thursday 9 Mar 2023: It’s my birthday!
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…
Wednesday 8 Mar 2023: Started a new read
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…
Tuesday 7 Mar 2023: Hectic weekend
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…
Monday 6 Mar 2023: Catching up, slowly
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…
Friday 3 Mar 2023: Busy Thursday
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…
Thursday 2 Mar 2023: Using the Novelist app
There are times when I am out and about and I don’t have my notebook or my laptop with me but I suddenly find I have time when I could…
Monday 27 Feb 2023: Off to the theatre, dah-ling!
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…
Friday 24 Feb 2023: Planning and writing
I didn’t do the writing prompts posts this week because I hadn’t done the leg work for July. So writing prompts for July should appear next week everywhere. It will…
Thursday 23 Feb 2023: Technology fail… again
On Tuesday morning, after working through the entire night, I submitted the fourth instalment of the ghostwriting at around 8am. As I mentioned yesterday, as the poet was getting up,…
Tuesday 21 Feb 2023: Tired
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…
Monday 20 Feb 2023: It’s MY blog and I’ll write what I want
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…
Friday 17 Feb 2023: Yesterday wasn’t great
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…
Thursday 16 Feb 2023: I really should be writing
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…
Tuesday 14 Feb 2023: Valentine’s Day
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…
Monday 13 Feb 2023: A weekend of rest
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…
Friday 10 Feb 2023: All clear!
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…
Thursday 9 Feb 2023: First negative test
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…
Tuesday 7 Feb 2023: Technology fails everywhere
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…
Monday 6 Feb 2023: Back to normal(ish)
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…
Friday 3 Feb 2023: Sea air
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…
Thursday 2 Feb 2023: Back to work… of a fashion
Before he went to work yesterday, the poet tested himself for Covid and the result was negative. So off he pootled, and on his way home he called at his…
Monday 30 Jan 2023: bar graphs and pie charts
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…
Friday 27 Jan 2023: new publication started
I’d stayed up a bit late to get the short story submitted in time to the writing challenge, and that meant getting up late the next day as well. Once…
Tuesday 24 Jan 2023: I had a weekend off!
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…
Monday 23 Jan 2023: More short stories
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…
Friday 20 Jan 2023: Promising myself a treat once I finish…
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…
Thursday 19 Jan 2023: Brrr!
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 17 Jan 2023: Snowdrops (not ours in the pic)
Despite having ‘no plans beyond shopping’, we had a really busy weekend in the end. Saturday On Saturday we got up early (yes, really – at the weekend!) and we…
Monday 16 Jan 2023: Current WIP
Well, it seems that the WP to Buffer auto-shares worked okay, and I didn’t even have to check because I received not one but five emails (5): one from WordPress…
Friday 13 Jan 2023: Testing things
I hit the ground running yesterday and went straight into faffing… Pomodoros Don’t forget, these pomodoros are 50 minutes each rather than 25 minutes each, short breaks are 10 minutes,…
Thursday 12 Jan 2023: Dog shenanigans
The dog disturbed me several times during the night and that meant I didn’t get as much sleep as I’d like. The poet manages to sleep right through all of…
Wednesday 11 Jan 2023: All clean!
The poet went into the office today, so that meant we were up earlier and that meant I was at my desk earlier. Pomodoros Don’t forget, these pomodoros are 50…
Tuesday 10 Jan 2023: 10 January already?!
Can you believe it’s 10 January already? Time flies ever quicker with each passing year. The dog didn’t get his twilight trot on Friday, or even his moonlight stroll. We…