0 902  4 Comments on Thursday 16 Feb 2023: I really should be writing
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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…

0 779  2 Comments on Wednesday 15 Feb 2023: Unexpected day off + Writing prompts
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Wednesday 15 Feb 2023: Unexpected day off + Writing prompts

I seem to have inadvertently taken a day off yesterday. I worked late Monday night to submit Part 3 of the ghostwriting job and finished at 2:30am Tuesday morning. That,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

0 600  2 Comments on Thursday 9 Feb 2023: First negative test
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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…

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Wednesday 8 Feb 2023: Almost clear + Writing prompts

I caught up on some date work over the weekend and now I’ve had time to let some of the ideas percolate, I came back to it yesterday morning and…

0 695  2 Comments on Tuesday 7 Feb 2023: Technology fails everywhere
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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…

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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…

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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…

0 679  4 Comments on Thursday 2 Feb 2023: Back to work… of a fashion
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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…

0 676  2 Comments on Wednesday 1 Feb 2023: Day 3 in the lurgy house
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Wednesday 1 Feb 2023: Day 3 in the lurgy house

Early Monday afternoon I went to bed not feeling very well at all. We assumed I’d caught the poet’s throat, but when he got home, he took my temperature and…

0 697  2 Comments on Tuesday 31 Jan 2023: Publication Day!
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Tuesday 31 Jan 2023: Publication Day!

It was a good gig on Friday night at the band’s original local. There was a great crowd with even a few surprise guests, which made it all the more…

0 607  2 Comments on Monday 30 Jan 2023: bar graphs and pie charts
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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…

0 644  2 Comments on Friday 27 Jan 2023: new publication started
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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…

0 624  4 Comments on Thursday 26 Jan 2023: 12 stories in 12 months
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Thursday 26 Jan 2023: 12 stories in 12 months

Most of Tuesday was taken up with the date work and getting all of that up to date. It didn’t finish at tea time, though. I had another webinar to…

0 905  4 Comments on Wednesday 25 Jan 2023: Date work + Writing prompts
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Wednesday 25 Jan 2023: Date work + Writing prompts

The Scrivener/Save the Cat webinar wasn’t quite what I was expecting, but it was a free seminar and there was still some useful stuff in there. I just would have…

0 651  4 Comments on Tuesday 24 Jan 2023: I had a weekend off!
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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…

0 814  2 Comments on Monday 23 Jan 2023: More short stories
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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…

0 802  2 Comments on Friday 20 Jan 2023: Promising myself a treat once I finish…
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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…

0 599  4 Comments on Thursday 19 Jan 2023: Brrr!
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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…

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Book Review: One Enchanted Evening

This feature is in association with NetGalley. One Enchanted Evening by Katie Fforde Many thanks to NetGalley and to Random House UK, Cornerstone, Century for letting me see an advance reader’s…

0 760  3 Comments on Tuesday 17 Jan 2023: Snowdrops (not ours in the pic)
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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…

0 581  4 Comments on Monday 16 Jan 2023: Current WIP
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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…