Words Worth Writing

18 July 2022

Publication Day!

The Last Chick Fledges, a Wordsworth Flash Fiction, is published today! This very short story is one I wrote for an assignment. I won’t say what the assignment was as it includes a spoiler. The tutor didn’t like it much and once again told me to bunch dialogue together in paragraphs that didn’t need separating for different speakers. The first...

Publication

14 July 2022

Slow down, take stock

With Windows 11 falling out with Office 365 and Scrivener 3 last week, I lost a lot of time trying to sort it all out. Then I lost a lot more time reinstalling everything and telling other people (a) what I’d had to do, and (b) how to perhaps fix their own similar issues. On top of that, I had...

writer at work

13 July 2022

Out now!

On Monday, Pippa & Davey Forever was published as a Wordsworth Flash Fiction! This very short story is one I wrote from a prompt in a writers’ guide. The prompt was ‘skin’. That was it. Nothing else. Just ‘skin’. Apparently one of the glossy women’s monthlies ran it as a competition. Once I had that one word, I rattled the...

Publication

8 July 2022

Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 1 July

Chapter 26: Week commencing Friday 1 July Who can believe that it’s July already? This year is flying by. Friday As Friday was the first of the month, I did have a lot of new month admin to do. I also still had a lot of reinstalling to do following the previous week of hell. The admin consisted of new...

diary of a tiger

4 July 2022

Publication Day!

CampNaNo has started atop everything else I do, but I’m still publishing something every week. Today, Meet Me In Glenridding is published! This very short story is one I wrote and then didn’t do anything with because it was the wrong length. So eventually I published it myself. It’s now been published in Twee Tales Too, Twee Tales More and...

Publication

1 July 2022

Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 24 June

Chapter 25: Week commencing Friday 24 June Well, I’ve had a right mare of a week, losing 3 working days thanks to crappy tech that insists on doing what it wants to do instead of what it’s been bought and is being paid to do. Friday The scheduled post I hoped would auto-post on Friday did, which was a nice...

diary of a tiger

29 June 2022

My books now on Google Play

Today’s news is that my books have finally started to go live on Google Play. I’m slowly adding them, in order of publication, but starting with the short stories. You can now follow the links on my Books2Read page, or you can go straight to my Google Books page. The new books aren’t showing on the latter yet. I don’t...

News

28 June 2022

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Subscribe to the mailing list Subscribe to my newsletter and receive a free short story every month. For the month of July, there’s a weekly newsletter following me at CampNaNo. Follow this link or use the form below to sign up to the mailing list and receive your first free short story. And don’t forget, you can unsubscribe at any...

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27 June 2022

Publication Day!

As usual I’m a bit busy, but that still doesn’t interrupt the publishing schedule. Today, Five Third Age Short Stories is published! This is a collection of, well, five short stories that all feature older characters. You can find all of my books on the BUY MY BOOKS tab on the blog, or you can go to www.books2read.com/DianeWordsworth. Alternatively, you...

Publication

24 June 2022

Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 17 June

Chapter 24: Week commencing Friday 17 June Friday I finally did some ghostwriting on Friday, having first got around the real names and places issue that was obviously bothering me. I’ve changed the pertinent names to ones I can work with, and I’ve renamed the location. But if the client wants me to put them all back again, I will...

diary of a tiger

21 June 2022

Publishing Challenge! Mid-term update

Back in October 2021, I set myself a challenge to publish a book a week for a year. This could be a short story, a collection of short stories, a novella, a novel, a non-fiction book, a whatever. It just had to be published in book form and be something written by me. As of this week, I’ve published 36...

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20 June 2022

Publication Day!

No publishing challenge post again today as I’ve been stupidly busy – again! The short story That’s What Friends Are For is out today! This is a brand-new story that’s never previously been published. It’s one I wrote for a course assignment, but I didn’t like the original title (Dedicated Follower of Fashion), I had to change the name of...

Publication

17 June 2022

Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 10 June

Chapter 23: Week commencing Friday 10 June I’m back to normal again this week, starting the diary on a Friday. Hopefully everything else is back to normal too. Friday I was very busy all day on Friday. The only thing I did from my own list was daily competitions. The rest of the day was spent editing. It’s a big...

diary of a tiger

16 June 2022

The portable garden this week: 16 June 2022

The weedkiller isn’t only not working, it’s not even coming close. I know that our gravel patch isn’t strictly part of the portable garden, but it is part of the garden and I’d still like it to look nice. But the weedkiller isn’t working. The poet did say he’d give it another go at the weekend, but he’s still recovering...

The Portable Garden

14 June 2022

Newsletter News!

I finally have newsletter news! Please sign up if you haven’t already. Thanks to all of the subscribers patiently waiting for a newsletter from me. After several months of dithering, moving from one provider to another to another, and wondering what on earth to include, I’ve finally come up with a plan. Existing newsletter subscribers will get this blog post...

News

13 June 2022

Publication Day!

No publishing challenge post again today as I’ve been stupidly busy. One day – one day – I *will* manage my time and my workload a lot better. In the meantime… The short story Burn is out today! This story features Marcie Craig. All of the Marcie Craig full-length novels are named for albums or tracks released by Birmingham rock...

Publication

10 June 2022

Diary of a Tiger: w/c Wed 1 June

Chapter 22: Week commencing Wednesday 1 June Last week’s diary should have finished on Wednesday, but I was so busy I didn’t have time to go into detail. I’ll do that now, but as this means this week’s diary will cover an extra few days, I’ll try and keep it short and sweet. Wednesday The only things I managed to...

diary of a tiger

8 June 2022

I went AWOL again…

…only this time, we had advance warning so were able to prepare. After years and years of trying this or that or something else, the poet finally had his operation on Monday. He was having a major nasal polypectomy followed by some reconstructive surgery. To give them their due, the consultants did try to avoid surgery altogether by attempting to...

writer at work

2 June 2022

Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 27 May

Chapter 21: Week commencing Friday 27 May There’s no portable garden post this week as we finished yesterday for the extra-long weekend and I’m publishing instead this week’s Diary of a Tiger. Friday I made it to my desk by 10am and the first job I did was have a 5-minute declutter of my emails. They’re all starting to build...

diary of a tiger

1 June 2022

Writing Prompts: 1 June 2022

I try to work roughly 4 months ahead because the majority of my writing markets are quick to take work from me and publish it. Many markets, however, already have their content planned for up to a year. Quicker writers than me will also be able to churn out an entire book — or more than one — in time to hit the market...

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