Tag: a year in the life of a fearless writer

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 will be Monday. If not, then it will be Tuesday.  I was billing the last episode as the penultimate chapter,...

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 I do next? I’ve already done some loose planning and I think I have a working idea. Nevertheless, the weekend...

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 my A4 ring-binder for the think/write/submit topical short story ideas. So I needed next year’s calendars for that – a...

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 services as an editor instead of a writer. I really don’t feel comfortable writing fan fiction as I feel such...

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 first week, I was finishing an electronic edit for the history publishers. We were already behind on this due to...

Chapter 54: Wednesday 16 November I’m running a bit behind on my NaNo at the moment, mostly due to all the red-tape stuff I had to do last week. I’ve been dipping in and out, but I’ve not had chance to give it a full run and I don’t currently know where I am on the word-count. Another thing that’s...

Chapter 53: Friday 11 November Saturday Saturday should have been Day 4 of NaNoWriMo, but it turned into a day of household chores. The poet popped out at midday to go and setup for a wedding Monkey Dust were playing at Saturday night. This gave us time to have a proper, civilised tea, and the animals weren’t left as long...

Chapter 52: Saturday 5 November For the duration of NaNoWriMo, Diary of a Tiger will go back to weekly posts, appearing on a Saturday with a round-up of the week. I’m posting daily updates for NaNo on weekdays only, the morning after the pertinent writing day. Tuesday I had a lot to do on Tuesday as it was the first day...

Chapter 51: Tuesday 1 November November already… This year has flown by. Friday On Friday morning we had the 3rd of our 4 appointments for last week. The poet’s car was due in for some urgent maintenance and update (it had 2 recalls in the time it took us to get someone to agree to see it), so I had...

Chapter 50: Friday 28 October I was whizzed through the 6:40pm appointment on Wednesday at record speed and by 8pm we’d eaten and were home again. We had Burger King and Dunkin’ Donuts for tea, which was a nice treat. And we bought enough doughnuts for yesterday and today as well. First job of the day was another book publication,...

Chapter 49: Thursday 27 October Wednesday was a bit discombobulated due to the regular diary being disrupted slightly. It was the second of this week’s four appointments where I had to put on real clothes and go out. I also couldn’t eat anything after 12 noon due to the ultrasound later in the day at 6:40pm… I mean, who has...

Chapter 48: Wednesday 26 October For the second day on the trot, I made it to my desk by 10am, and it didn’t even involve having to get up and go out at the crack of dawn. What actually happened was that the poet had gone off to work and I realised that we hadn’t put the bin out. So...

Chapter 47: Tuesday 25 October I had a difficult night on Thursday night due to both the dog and the cat waking me up not once but twice. Each. They always wake me up and not the poet. Probably because he sleeps through it anyway. The second time the cat woke me up she jumped on my shoulder (I was...

Chapter 46: Friday 21 October The rain returned yesterday, with a vengeance, and promptly started to pour in through the conservatory. I reported this at the end of last month, and it was acknowledged on 1 October. Since then we’ve heard nothing. It’s okay when the weather is dry, which it has been apart from an occasional shower here and...

Chapter 45: Thursday 20 October I’m doing a few diaries on the trot at the moment because I’m still not back into the swing of my regular weekly chores. I am reading the next book for review, so as soon as that’s done, there’ll be a Tuesday book review. And I’m also gradually looking for a planner that works for...

Chapter 44: Wednesday 19 October I had 2 lots of good news on Tuesday. First of all, I saw I’d sold some more books. This is amazing and it really is true that since I started to publish a book a week for a year, I’ve sold more books than I ever did in the previous 12 years. I was...

Chapter 43: Tuesday 18 October After working until 6:15am on Friday morning, I was pretty much a waste of food for the rest of the day. I went straight to bed, of course. But I didn’t get up again until around 1pm. I only had a couple of jobs to do, but they could all be moved to Monday this...

Chapter 42: Friday 14 October One of the things I wanted to get ahead on again was drafting these diary blogs during the day as I work and then auto-posting them the following morning at 8am. So in between chapters of the ghostwriting gig yesterday, I started today’s post. Some may suggest that I should work solidly on the ghostwriting...