0 212  4 Comments on Friday 11 October 2024: Friday again!
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Friday 11 October 2024: Friday again!

So it’s Friday again already! [sigh!] This week seems to have flown by. I didn’t bake any cookies on Wednesday night but I did make the pear sponge. We were…

0 190  2 Comments on Thursday 10 October 2024: I wrote a(nother) short story!
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Thursday 10 October 2024: I wrote a(nother) short story!

When I got up yesterday I was convinced it was Tuesday. I still had my story to write for 12 STORIES IN 12 MONTHS. But it was fine, I still…

0 214  2 Comments on Wednesday 9 October 2024: It’s deadline day! 😱
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Wednesday 9 October 2024: It’s deadline day! 😱

I had such a leisurely start yesterday, not rushing or worrying. I mean, I had ALL day to write a story that was due in today, and I’d already done…

0 158  2 Comments on Tuesday 8 October 2024: Getting annoyed with things
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Tuesday 8 October 2024: Getting annoyed with things

Monday morning began with me finalising the outline for THE MYSTERY AT HORTON EDGE on Story Plotter on my tablet, which I did straight after breakfast while still in my…

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Monday 7 October 2024: A new week

I started the job of deleting my stories from Vocal on Thursday, after I’d scheduled Friday’s post to publish, beginning with the date-specific topical stories that won’t make sense now….

0 203  2 Comments on Friday 4 October 2024: That was the week that was
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Friday 4 October 2024: That was the week that was

I skipped a few more regular daily posts over the past couple of days due to the September wrap-up, the Hello October, the book review, and the Take One Idea…

0 152  2 Comments on Thursday 3 October 2024: Take one idea – St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne
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Thursday 3 October 2024: Take one idea – St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne

How to farm 50 more ideas to write about from just one Last week I wrote about 28 ideas you can write about that will be topical in March 2025….

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Wednesday 2 October 2024: Book review

Book review: COMING HOME TO THE WINDMILL BY THE SEA by Caroline Young This feature is in association with NetGalley. Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting…

0 199  2 Comments on Tuesday 1 October 2024: Hello, October!
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Tuesday 1 October 2024: Hello, October!

I do love autumn. I love the fact the nights are drawing in. I love cosying up in front of the fire. My breakfast cereal starts to have hot milk…

0 237  6 Comments on Monday 30 September 2024: September wrap-up
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Monday 30 September 2024: September wrap-up

September disappeared a bit sharpish off the scale and I suddenly realised that the end of the month was upon us.  Today’s post is short and sweet, but here’s how…

0 222  4 Comments on Friday 27 September 2024: Getting on with stuff
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Friday 27 September 2024: Getting on with stuff

I skipped a regular daily post yesterday because the writing ideas post is such a long one. Next week, I’ll share the ‘take one idea’ post for March too. I’ve…

0 231  4 Comments on Thursday 26 September 2024: 28 Writing Prompts For March Stories
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Thursday 26 September 2024: 28 Writing Prompts For March Stories

Topical & evergreen ideas to write about that editors want to see Welcome back to an old favourite! Every month I do a think/write/submit writing exercise. I usually ‘think’ around…

0 293  8 Comments on Wednesday 25 September 2024: Such a waste of time!
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Wednesday 25 September 2024: Such a waste of time!

We were up fairly early yesterday due to a dermatology appointment for me at the hospital – the first of 3 this week. But I didn’t have time to get…

0 211  2 Comments on Tuesday 24 September 2024: Busy doing nothing…
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Tuesday 24 September 2024: Busy doing nothing…

(Note: I did a tap dance once to I’M BUSY DOING NOTHING, and wore a pair of dungarees my mom’d had made for the occasion. Hence today’s picture…) I seem…

0 182  2 Comments on Monday 23 September 2024: A weekend in Cayton
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Monday 23 September 2024: A weekend in Cayton

I didn’t get around to a lot of work on Friday as I already knew we were on a tight schedule to get to Friday’s camp site. We had to…

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Friday 20 September 2024: Book review

Book review: A POCKETFUL OF DIAMONDS by Pam Lecky This feature is in association with NetGalley. Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting me see an advance…

0 215  2 Comments on Friday 20 September 2024: Still doing date work
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Friday 20 September 2024: Still doing date work

I was late again publishing the day’s blog post, as I’d left it dangling the night before. I finalised that and got it posted, then started on today’s straight away….

0 201  3 Comments on Thursday 19 September 2024: Date work
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Thursday 19 September 2024: Date work

I didn’t even bother trying to take the dog on a ‘walk to work’ yesterday. He’s happy enough zooming around the gardens and so long as his collar’s off, he’ll…

0 206  2 Comments on Wednesday 18 September 2024: Tidying my Scrivener binders
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Wednesday 18 September 2024: Tidying my Scrivener binders

Today’s image was a free image from DepositPhotos. I liked it, even if I don’t know what’s in the glass… We both woke up with aches and pains everywhere yesterday….

0 178  2 Comments on Tuesday 17 September 2024: A day at the races?
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Tuesday 17 September 2024: A day at the races?

We had a fairly busy weekend with the dog. Once we’d both finished work on Friday we took him for a walk before tea. But on Saturday we had a…

0 174  2 Comments on Monday 16 September 2024: Reading and writing and submitting
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Monday 16 September 2024: Reading and writing and submitting

We had a lovely surprise on Friday when Son #2 brought Grand-doggy #1 to stay with us. He called the day before to make sure we’d remembered. I thought it…

0 239  2 Comments on Friday 13 September 2024: Friday the 13th
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Friday 13 September 2024: Friday the 13th

It’s Friday the 13th today. Friday the 13th bothers me that much, I didn’t even register it until I saw something on Facebook.  I don’t know where yesterday went but…

0 227  2 Comments on Thursday 12 September 2024: Networking
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Thursday 12 September 2024: Networking

First job of the day yesterday was to work on the story for 12 STORIES IN 12 MONTHS and get it submitted. I was right at the end of revising…

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Wednesday 11 September 2024: WORDS WORTH READING Issue One out now!

It’s been a while since I made any promotional material. I forgot to do this for Monday’s post, forgot it yesterday, but remembered it today…(Well, I remembered it yesterday really,…

0 176  2 Comments on Tuesday 10 September 2024: Bonus work time
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Tuesday 10 September 2024: Bonus work time

I had bonus work time Monday morning as before I’d even got out of bed there was a text message from my dentist saying the hygienist was poorly and could…

0 173  2 Comments on Monday 8 September 2024: A weekend in Mablethorpe
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Monday 8 September 2024: A weekend in Mablethorpe

Friday disappeared a bit sharpish. I’m glad to say that I did indeed clear the proofs for the client edit I’ve been working on, leaving just the plates to proofread…

0 238  4 Comments on Friday 6 September 2024: More learning
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Friday 6 September 2024: More learning

I had a last minute dental appointment to attend yesterday (not an emergency) at 12:15pm, but the Tour of Britain bike race was starting at 11am, finishing at around 2pm,…

0 196  4 Comments on Thursday 5 September 2024: Tired just looking at it all
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Thursday 5 September 2024: Tired just looking at it all

September work proper finally got underway yesterday. But still I had to rejig things around so that I don’t fall too far behind. I’ve had to step away from the…

0 212  2 Comments on Wednesday 4 September 2024: Free image Wednesday
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Wednesday 4 September 2024: Free image Wednesday

I had a play yesterday with AI-generated art, but I very quickly got confused and concerned about, well, everything really. Within an hour or so of publishing them, I took…

0 244  4 Comments on Tuesday 3 September 2024: Hello, September!
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Tuesday 3 September 2024: Hello, September!

Ah, September! The start of my annual work schedule, which probably harks back to school and college days when the new term started in September. I don’t have an academic…

0 158  2 Comments on Monday 2 September 2024: August wrap-up
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Monday 2 September 2024: August wrap-up

I seem to have vanished down a dark hole towards the end of last week. I didn’t, honest. But I was ravingly mad busy. Of course, I had this massive…

0 196  2 Comments on Wednesday 28 August 2024: I’ve always been PC…
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Wednesday 28 August 2024: I’ve always been PC…

No, not politically correct – I’ve never really been that kind of PC, despite being equality officer for the NUJ for a while. I mean personal computer. I’ve never been…

0 171  2 Comments on Tuesday 27 August 2024: Working on the schedule
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Tuesday 27 August 2024: Working on the schedule

On Thursday night I went to bed with a good feeling: I didn’t have to get up to do any work for anyone else in the morning, only me. That…