So we pretty much ran out of time. We did a helluva lot… but we ran out of time. Saying that, there are only a couple of things we wanted doing by *the day* that haven’t been done. We still
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Curtains!
We were supposed to break up for the Christmas holidays on Monday, but as I was clawing back time from the week before, I actually finished on Tuesday night… or Wednesday morning, as it was 3am when I turned in.
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Diary of a Tiger: Tue 13 Dec 2022
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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