Tag: 12 stories in 12 months
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…
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…
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…
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….
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….
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Thursday 15 August 2024: Back in a trade union!
While I started everything up on Wednesday, I also started my weekly tech scan for viruses. As that ran, I read through A DAY AT THE RACES and made a…
Wednesday 14 August 2024: I wrote another short story…
It’s almost as though I do this kind of thing for a living! We were up with the larks again yesterday because my car was booked in for what we…
Tuesday 13 August 2024: Happy dentist
We went out on Sunday to get me a long grabby thing (long-handled litter-picker) so that when I’m walking around the garden, I can easily pick up windfall apples and…
Friday 9 August 2024: It’s NOT piracy – it’s deliberate 😕
After we got back from our tea the poet had some work to do, so while he did that I started to brainstorm my story for 12 STORIES IN 12…
Wednesday 7 August 2024: A week away
On the Friday we broke up for our week away, I ended up stopping work 2 hours earlier than planned because campsite #1 called and asked us to make sure…
Friday 19 July 2024: Free image Friday
Today’s free image was so cheerful and energetic, I just had to use it. I love yellow. The poet was up bright and early to head back to the midlands….
Thursday 18 July 2024: Announcement!
I had a bit of a slow, lazy start to the day yesterday. The temperature finally reached something close to ‘normal’ for summer and I thought it was too hot…
Wednesday 17 July 2024: Soapbox alert
We had a good evening, the dog and I. We didn’t go for another walk as we played ball instead in the garden. For hours. He got lots of sticky…
Monday 15 July 2024: A dog for the week
We were up very early on Friday because I had a very early (to us!) review appointment at the hospital. We got there on time and by the time the…
Thursday 11 July 2024: Early mornings ahead
From today, we have a week-and-a-half of early starts. Today one of the cars has to go in for MOT and service. Tomorrow, we’re at the hospital. We have a…
Wednesday 3 July 2024: Productive day
After a bit of a rough night, we were up relatively early to take the poet to the dentist. He was full of cold (hence the rough night) and secretly…
Friday 28 June 2024: Executive decision
I was at my desk fairly early on Thursday morning as I had a dentist appointment in the middle of the day, for which I had to factor in travel…
Thursday 20 June 2024: More writing!
After a late night on Sunday submitting the cosy mystery for the anthology, Monday started later than usual. Over breakfast, though, I dealt with emails, one of which had come…
Monday 17 June 2024: Seem to be getting there
Friday morning began with the client edit pdf proof landing. This has also gone to the author and to a proofreader. Once we’ve all had a look, I’ll consolidate the…
Friday 14 June 2024: Re-subscribe
Before reading any further, if you’re a subscriber to the blog (not the newsletter) and you’re not receiving your email notifications, I think you need to subscribe again. You can…
Thursday 13 June 2024: Starting a routine
Having identified no fixed routine as a possible problem when doing my work (or not doing it, as the case too often turns out), I started to make a plan….
Monday 10 June 2024: Playing with covers… (again)
While we were on holiday, I received an email every day from Jetpack telling me that my site was unresponsive. Usually less than an hour later, I had another email…
Thursday 23 May 2024: The bells
I had a much better night on Tuesday. I left all of the inside doors open in the house and kept a window open in the bedroom, so I could…
Wednesday 22 May 2024: Magpies are clever
I’m not used to being in the house on my own yet and during the night on Monday/Tuesday, I woke up at about 3:30am thinking I could hear noises. I…
Tuesday 21 May 2024: Busy weekend
Gosh what a busy weekend we had. Saturday We were up early on Saturday because we had a lot to do, and while the poet was getting something out of…
Tuesday 14 May 2024: The days are getting busy
The weekend was very full and busy, starting with a packed Saturday. We started with a visit to the mother-in-law to pick up something for Son #2 who’d had an…
Monday 13 May 2024: Another dental appointment!
First job Friday was rejigging the schedule over the next few weeks. I had to move a lot of things down the calendar that I didn’t get around to over…
Thursday 25 April 2024: Getting ready to go camping
I put a chicken in the oven for tea on Tuesday night, but I didn’t really like the smell of it. I let it cook for about 30 minutes, to…
Wednesday 24 April 2024: The Undercover Project has begun
The first job on Tuesday morning was to feed the dog, give him his medication, and feed the birds. The birds have been making a bit of a mess, recently….