Due to another long weekend, and another one taken off, yesterday’s publishing challenge post has been postponed. However, the short story Wedding of the Year was published yesterday. This is a story I wrote for an assignment on a writing
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Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 22 April
Chapter 16: Week commencing Friday 22 April Friday Another 3 books came in overnight from NetGalley, so I added those to the project. As of this morning, that’s 218… I finished re-reading Two For The Dough by Janet Evanovich (for pleasure),
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The portable garden this week: 28 April 2022
Note: If any of the pictures are too small on your hand-held device, try turning the device on its side. It was a shorter weekend just gone, 2 days instead of 4, and we spent one of them down in
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 12
Chapter 12 Publication Day! Today sees the publication of another Wordsworth Short. Around the Maypole is a story I wrote but didn’t send anywhere. I published it myself in Twee Tales Too and it’s since been published in Twee Tales More. You
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Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 15 April
Chapter 15: Week commencing Friday 15 April Friday It was Good Friday on Friday and, because I’d done all of my work, for the first time in ages I had the entire 4-day weekend ahead off. We pottered in the
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The portable garden this week: 21 April 2022
Note: If any of the pictures are too small on your hand-held device, try turning the device on its side. Several ducks lined up in a row this week: I finished all of my work so could take the weekend
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Publication Day Yesterday! (Again!)
Due to the long weekend, and due to me actually being able to take the long weekend off, yesterday’s publishing challenge post has been postponed. However, the short story A Stranger at Eight was published yesterday. This is a story I
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Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 1 April & Fri 8 April
Chapter 14: Week commencing Friday 1 April & Friday 8 April Friday (1 April) I remembered to come in and start the post on Friday this week, instead of try to remember it all the following Wednesday or Thursday. Even
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The portable garden this week: 14 April 2022
The weekend just gone was all about getting things ready. It’s a big, open, boring garden that’s covered with gravel and flanked by hedges. There’s a massive garage at one end, and the house at the other, both painted white.
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Two publication days!
Due to last week’s hospital stay, I didn’t get around to writing up the latest publishing challenge post. That doesn’t mean I missed the challenge. Thanks to technology and being able to load several books in one go. I still
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The portable garden
We’ve been at this house for almost 2 years and we’ve yet to do anything with the garden. This is for 2 reasons: We didn’t know how long we’d be staying here It’s not really a very nice garden We
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I went AWOL…
We thought it was trapped wind, but as the pain got steadily worse I realised I needed to go to hospital. When I got there, they diagnosed pancreatitis, and they kept me there. I went in on Sunday afternoon, was
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Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 25 Mar
Chapter 13: Week commencing Friday 25 March Friday For all of Friday I was editing. Hard-copy editing for the Yorkshire editing/proofreading/writing client. There was nothing else on my planner. Just editing. I did actually do some other work, but it was
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Writing Prompts: 30 March 2022
Wednesday Writing Prompts are back, but renamed simply Writing Prompts. This is so I don’t feel obliged to do one every week, especially when I’m snowed under doing other, paying work. Six months away Personally, I try to work roughly
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Publication Day Yesterday!
I’ve been a bit busy with one thing or another (see Friday’s diary of a tiger post), so haven’t spent much time on the publishing challenge. However, the short story Arrivederci Roma was published yesterday. It’s the latest Wordsworth Short
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