Tag: 12 stories in 12 months
Tuesday 11 February 2025: Fog
I had a lot of problems last week trying to upload the latest 3 books I’m publishing to Google Play Books. It was always so easy before, but I think…
Wednesday 5 February 2025: Nice and steady
We’ve started this 16:8 eating thing and it’s taking a bit of getting used to. For the most part, I’ll be having 2 light meals and 1 main meal in…
Thursday 30 January 2025: Deadline days
It was our first deadline day of the year yesterday for 12 Stories in 12 Months on Deadlines for Writers. I’d finished a very rough draft of the 1,200-word story…
Wednesday 29 January 2025: Rhythm
I didn’t write up Tuesday’s blog post until Tuesday morning, thanks to my procrastination on Monday. Once it was written, I posted it and shared it. Then I allowed myself…

Friday 10 January 2025: To boldly go or not to boldly go…?
And there we have it. The first full week of 2025 is done. It’s frightening, but a reminder that time waits for no man, so it certainly won’t wait for…
Thursday 9 January 2025: Ramblings
Wednesday morning started well. The birds had their first feed of the day (they really are eating a lot in this snow) and I’d shared yesterday’s blog post within about…
Tuesday 7 January 2025: A good start
I packed a lot into the last 2 days of the week last week, and I packed a bit into the weekend as well. Saturday I was determined to have…
Tuesday 17 December 2024: Soap box alert!
We were away last week for a few days, down south in Faversham, which is only a few miles away from the south coast. We drove down on Tuesday, the…
Wednesday 11 December 2024: 12 Stories in 12 Months
image created in CanvaPro I didn’t have any idea what to write about today as we were travelling for much of yesterday, from north to south. Very south. The morning…
Monday 9 December 2024: Publication day!
Yes! It’s another publication day today. The City of Glasgow is another story I wrote for 12 Stories in 12 Months. We were given the prompt (1852) and the word-count…
Friday 6 December 2024: In a rhythm again
I’m still trying to catch up with the blog, but I think I’m getting there. I spent a couple of hours on Thursday at teatime watching Flight FR2088 coming back…
Thursday 5 December 2024: Catching up…
The bright-eyed and bushy-tailed may have noticed that the blog is running a bit behind at the moment, about half a day behind. This is because I’ve been writing it…
Wednesday 4 December 2024: My 12-project planner
Isn’t my 12-project planner wonderful? I keep mentioning it, so I thought I ought to at least give you a hint of what it looks like. This image is of…
Tuesday 3 December 2024: Catching up
Gosh, what a lot of catching up I have to do today…Where did I leave you? Oh yes, Wednesday… I didn’t feel very well on Wednesday. During Monday night…
Monday 25 November 2024: Publication day!
I was busy on Friday trying to catch up with everything. I wrote Friday’s blog, chose the picture, published it, then shared it. I did a quick 5-minute tech declutter….
Monday 11 November 2024: Remembrance Day
The only thing I really worked on on Friday was The Secret of Whitehorse Farm. And even then it was only pre-writing. Everything else was on binder work in Scrivener…
Thursday 7 November 2024: Oops, missed a day
I didn’t miss a day because I was being idle. I missed a day because I was busy. ALL of Tuesday was spent finishing the hard-copy proofread for my client….
Tuesday 29 October 2024: Writing and reading
Our internet is shocking at the moment. The entire village have been complaining, despite high-speed cables being laid beneath the roads in recent months. We’re getting all the upheaval of…
Tuesday 22 October 2024: Lots of planning work
First job on Monday was Monday’s blog post. I’d started it on Friday and intended to complete it over the weekend as I worked. As I didn’t work at the…
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…