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Diary of a non-fiction book: an update

21 March 2018 Diane writer at work

The last time the diary of a non-fiction book appeared was at the end of October 2017. I was about to embark on NaNoWriMo 2017 and the history book was going to be my project. Since then, I’ve not really

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Diary of a non-fiction book: week 4 – day 2

18 August 2017 Diane writer at work

Day 2 was actually on Wednesday when I went to the Cadbury archives again in Birmingham. What a day! I was late leaving in the first place and didn’t get away until 9:30am when I really wanted to be on

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Diary of a non-fiction book: week 4 – day 1

15 August 2017 Diane writer at work

My first day back on the non-fiction book was yesterday. First of all I reviewed the list of storage material I’d compiled the last time I visited the company archives two weeks ago. I’d made a list of all the

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Diary of a non-fiction book: week 3 – day 2

14 August 2017 Diane writer at work

I don’t know. You wait all week for a blog post, and then three come along at once … I didn’t get much done on the non-fiction book last week other than research. I’m very much at the research stage

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Diary of a non-fiction book: week 3 – day 1

8 August 2017 Diane writer at work

Week three is still very much about research for me at the moment. I’m on chapter 3 of the research material and I’ve searched for and chosen my usual five websites, and added those to my Scrivener file. The cards

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Diary of a non-fiction book: week 2 – day 2

4 August 2017 Diane writer at work

Wednesday was a very long and tiring but certainly worthwhile day. I set off at about 8:45am and got to my parents’ in good time to drop the dog off and then cross town for my appointment, which was 11:00

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Diary of a non-fiction book: week 2 – day 1

1 August 2017 Diane writer at work

I’ve not been taking additional days off. I’ve been doing normal work stuff. It still needs doing, even when I have a book to write. Today it was back to the grind with a new research week. This week I’m

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Diary of a non-fiction book: week 1 – day 4

28 July 2017 Diane writer at work

Yesterday’s work session began with me updating the raw text version of this Diary of …that will be coming out after it’s all over. I added yesterday morning’s post, and formatted it, and then I wrote ten exercises for “pre-work” and

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Diary of a non-fiction book: week 1 – the story so far

24 July 2017 Diane writer at work

A few weeks ago (on or around 12 June in fact, so it was longer ago than I thought), I was editing a book for lovely-already-boss and one chapter in particular gave me the germ of an idea for a

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