Chapter 59: Tuesday 13 December When I started to draft today’s post, I wasn’t sure yet if it would be published on Monday or Tuesday. If I finish all my work on time, i.e. before we break up, then it
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Diary of a Tiger: Fri 9 Dec 2022
Chapter 58: Friday 9 December It’s the last few days of Diary of a Tiger, which is both refreshing and scary. Refreshing because it’s a year old and I need to do something, well, fresh. Scary because, well, what do
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Diary of a Tiger: Wed 7 Dec 2022
Chapter 57: Wednesday 7 December First job of the day today was planning work. I already know I have a lovely new FiloFax coming for Christmas, along with day to a page inserts and to-do lists, but I still keep
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Diary of a Tiger: Tue 6 Dec 2022
Chapter 56: Tuesday 6 December (or… I don’t have a book review at the moment so the diary will have to do…) At the end of last week I wrote to the fan fiction ghostwriting client and offered her my
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Diary of a Tiger: Fri 2 Dec 2022
Chapter 55: Friday 2 December So I’ve not done a Diary of a Tiger since 16 November. That’s dreadful, Diane! Not that I’ve been idle, of course. Or not all of the time at least. For the tail-end of the
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That time of year – planning!
Today is 1 December, which means for me it’s the time of year for planning ahead. And I have a lot of planning to do for next year if I want to be more productive yet stop working through the
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NaNoWriMo 2022: WINNER
Day 16: 30 November 2022 I took it to the wire, but I got there! Day 1 = 3,706 words Day 2 = 2,508 words Day 3 = 2,585 words Day 4 = 1,412 words Day 5 = 2,743 words
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NaNoWriMo 2022: Day 15
Day 15: 29 November 2022 For this year’s NaNoWriMo, the plan was to write for 22 days in November. This gave me a daily target of 2,273 words, which should have been about 2 chapters per day. As with many
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NaNoWriMo 2022: Day 13 & Day 14
Day 13 & 14: 27 & 28 November 2022 I always brag that I never, ever get flu and that I’ll never, ever have a flu jab. I did get flu once, and it was when we both had Covid
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NaNoWriMo 2022: Day 12
Day 12: 26 November 2022 I’ve not been well all week, since last Sunday, in fact, but I had paid client work to do and so that’s what I did. I sent the work back to the client yesterday, which
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NaNoWriMo 2022: Day 10 & 11
Day 10 & 11: 24 & 25 November 2022 Thursday was Day 10 for me, but I only managed to add 1,659 words. Today is Day 11, and it started badly when I had a relapse of my stomach flu,
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NaNoWriMo 2022: Day 9
Day 9: 23 November 2022 Yesterday I said ‘Tomorrow will be better’. I added 2,730 words to the mix yesterday and today I added 2,935 words, so yes, it was slightly better, and a bit closer to that new target
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NaNoWriMo 2022: Day 7 & 8
Day 7 & 6: 19 & 22 November 2022 On Saturday I was rattling along but had to stop writing when tea appeared on the table. I didn’t have time to finish the day’s stint as we were off out
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Book Review: The Cornish Cream Tea Bookshop
This feature is in association with NetGalley. The Cornish Cream Tea Bookshop by Cressida McLaughlin Many thanks to NetGalley and to Harper Collins UK for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of The Cornish Cream Tea Bookshop. This is
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NaNoWriMo 2022: Day 6
Day 6: 18 November 2022 I’ve fallen such a long way behind on my NaNo that I’ve had to recalculate. As of today, Saturday 19 November, I still have 12 days left, including weekends, because I think I’m going to
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