Tag: Camp NaNoWriMo
Camp NaNo April 2023: Day 5
First job on Wednesday was to go and collect my prescription from the doctors. It was drizzling slightly, but the dog wanted to come with me, so he came too….
Camp NaNo April 2023: Day 4
Day 4 of NaNo didn’t really get off the ground until very late on. It was a bitty, busy day with me having two lots of appointments, one of…
Camp NaNo April 2023: Days 1, 2 & 3
We had another busy weekend. On Saturday morning I had to check what we had in the cupboards already, write a meal plan for this week, and then write up a…
Camp NaNo April 2023: Prep work 3
First thing Friday morning I had my new-patient appointment at our new doctors. So I took some letters to the letterbox and was early for my appointment. This is the…
Camp NaNo April 2023: Prep work 2
As each day passes I’m getting to my desk closer and closer to that magical ten o’clock… I just haven’t made it there yet. First job of the day was…
Camp NaNo April 2023: Prep work 1
It was still morning when I arrived at my desk yesterday and the first thing I did was pick up the workbook I’d deliberately left there the night before and…
Wednesday 29 Mar 2023: Camp NaNoWriMo on the horizon…
I managed to get up a bit earlier yesterday, and that meant I arrived at my desk a bit earlier too. It was too cool to sit and have breakfast…
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…
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Plan for April 2021
Image by Alexander Stein from Pixabay I had a lovely Easter break, something I planned on due to being so busy again just recently. I even finished work at a…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 20 (last day)
With me finishing the revisions of Twee Tales Too on Wednesday, I already had an extra hour today. Then when I checked in to the content-editing workroom, there was no work,…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 19 of 20 (in the end)
So this great plan of mine to be at my desk by 9am and write for 4 hours was foiled before I even got there. The poet was working from…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 18
As well as arriving very late to my desk this morning, I then got distracted. Three times. First of all, I saw that Martin Lewis, our money saving expert, has…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 17 + How to calculate your hourly rate
Although technically I wasn’t at my desk at quite 9am today, I was still working. I was doing my daily email declutter, responding to emails and turning down work. I…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 16
Oops, skipped a day … From this week, my 10-project writing planner has a new project attached. It’s a proofreading job, and I want it finished by the end of…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 14
After quite a bit of rigmarole (see yesterday’s post) I finally started work yesterday afternoon. I was keen to do some work for the client as well as some writing…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day off (rant alert)
Time was already tight this week with so many errands and deliveries booked in, so when the internet fell over – yet again – yesterday morning, I was not a…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 13
On Saturday we managed to get out for another bit of a drive. We ended up in Lincoln, as I’ve never been before. We had a lovely meal at a…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 12
After all of my bluster about starting the day writing, on the very first day I failed spectacularly. Friday was a Very Busy Day. The poet’s car was due in…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 11
Leaving my own work until the end of the day doesn’t work. It doesn’t get done. Especially if I’m busy on client work that has a solid deadline. Soft deadlines…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day Off
The day started on time yesterday, but much of the morning was spent on admin. I checked in with the content editing job first thing, but there was no work…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 10
The poet went back to work on Wednesday 1 July, his furlough over for now. Within 7 days of him mixing with people again, we both had signs of a…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 9
After a weekend that didn’t feel like a weekend, I was hardly raring to go yesterday morning and I was later to my desk than I would have preferred. It…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 8
I didn’t get a lot of my own work done on Friday. In fact, I didn’t get any of my own work done on Friday. I was finishing a client…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 7
Admin time was a little longer yesterday, 25 minutes instead of 15. I stopped when I started to get distracted again, and I closed down social media and webmail. I…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 6 (of 23)
Yesterday I started the day with just 15 minutes of admin before hurling myself into the novel. I wrote for just over an hour, and I added 1,956 words to…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 5
I say Day 5, but is it really Day 7? It was certainly Day 7 of the month, and it’s probably Day 7 for a lot of other campers. But…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 4
We had a good weekend … apart from the dog not feeling very well. He has a bit of a garbage-mouth, so we’re not surprised when he gets the runs…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 3
I had a good day on Friday. I wrote up several scenes, mixed them about a bit, and added some new material. It was also the first job of the…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 2
Yesterday started well. I was ready for my desk by 10am, after doing household chores and other faffing. I sat down with my ritual cup of tea, and I started…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 1
I think I’ve made a reasonable start for Camp NaNoWriMo. It was my first job of the day and I spent longer than my designated hour on it. I also…
Camp NaNoWriMo – and so it begins
Yes, it’s started. And for the first time ever, I’m joining in with a Camp NaNoWriMo. This should be a little easier than the usual NaNoWriMo, as there are 31…
And the winner is …
… Catch the Rainbow! I thought long and hard, I considered my current workload, and I decided that I don’t have the physical capacity at the moment to write something…