Tag: editing
Friday 22 September 2023: Where’d the week go?
Whoosh! And another week went by, just like that… How can it be Friday already? Well, actually, it’s still Thursday for me as I’m writing this yesterday. Even so… Yesterday…
Thursday 22 June 2023: Bumbling along
I slept really well on Tuesday night, and so did the dog. Which is probably why I slept so well. I had to wake him up he was in such…
Wednesday 21 June 2023: More rain
Yesterday began with me checking social media and emails while I had breakfast, and then I went straight into finishing the current book for NetGalley. I really enjoyed this one…
Tuesday 20 June 2023: A thunderstorm at last
We had thunderstorms forecast for the entire weekend and, naturally, I was keeping a close eye on them all via my app. Saturday On Saturday I wanted to go to…
Monday 19 June 2023: New bed, new bedding
We had to get up early on Friday because our new bed was coming. I asked if they could give me an idea of what time, and they said any time…
Tuesday 13 June 2023: These storms keep missing us
I don’t have a ‘my power board this week’ post this week. This is because it looks exactly the same as it did last week. And it looks exactly the…
Monday 12 June 2023: Editing, editing, editing
I didn’t work too late into the evening on Thursday and when the poet called to say he was on his way home from band practice, I finished the chapter…
Friday 9 June 2023: Full steam ahead
I didn’t think I was very hungry on Wednesday at tea time, but the poet made the dinner we should have had on Sunday and I ate it all. All…
Tuesday 30 May 2023: Reading and writing mysteries
The plan was to load up four books to my Kindle for holiday reading while we were away. In the end I finished reading one of them and started to…
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…
Just chillin’
The past few days have been all about chilling. I finished the editing job on Tuesday evening at about 7:30pm and it was back with the author by about 8pm,…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Wed 1 June
Chapter 22: Week commencing Wednesday 1 June Last week’s diary should have finished on Wednesday, but I was so busy I didn’t have time to go into detail. I’ll do…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 13 May
Chapter 19: Week commencing Friday 13 May Friday I was so busy on Friday I didn’t even realise it was Friday the 13th. The first job I got out of…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 6 May
Chapter 18: Week commencing Friday 6 May Friday Okay, hopefully I’ve learnt from not writing the diary as I go along, so today I’m here, at my desk, reporting for…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 25 Mar
Chapter 13: Week commencing Friday 25 March Friday For all of Friday I was editing. Hard-copy editing for the Yorkshire editing/proofreading/writing client. There was nothing else on my planner. Just…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 18 Mar
Chapter 12: Week commencing Friday 18 March Friday I spent far too long (3 hours) on Thursday after work arguing with Amazon, but from a paying customer’s point of view…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 4 Mar
Chapter 10: Week commencing Friday 4 March Friday On Friday morning I added a few more books to the publication schedule, so I could identify what work I need to…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 25 Feb
Chapter 9: Week commencing Friday 25 February Friday First job on Friday was a scheduled post on behalf of a group of friends who are running a writing competition. I…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 18 Feb
Chapter 8: Week commencing Friday 18 February Friday I struggled to do my ghostwriting for GW2 on Thursday evening. The poet had gone to band practice and that gave me…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 21 Jan
Chapter 4: Week commencing Friday 21 January Friday On Friday I had wall to wall ghostwriting booked in. I was busy doing other stuff as well, though, such as making…
Two days off
I worked at the weekend – again – but only so that I could at least have 2 days off this week with the poet. He had to go on…
A good start
(Image by S. Hermann & F. Richter from Pixabay) Part of my getting back to a structured routine includes writing up my writing diary as I go along. So I’m back to reporting…
I put my rates up
(Image by Kelvin Stuttard from Pixabay) My rates for editing and proofreading have been static for a lot of years now. And when I started the ghostwriting a year ago, I went in…
Hit the ground running (list alert)
Image by alan9187 from Pixabay I worked until 10pm gone on Friday, but I did it. As usual. I wrote my 11,000+ words, checked it over as I finished each…
Plan for May 2021
May might be a 31-day month, but with a bank holiday at either end and with me sticking to not working at the weekend, that gives me only 19 work…
The week so far
This is how my Scrivener binder for the project management series was looking when I started work on it on Tuesday. Tuesday I had a lot to do on Tuesday,…
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…
One jab down …
Image by Alexandra_Koch from Pixabay … three to go. Yup, the poet had the first of his two vaccinations at the weekend. His booking had got lost in the ether,…
Job searches
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Thursdays are always tired days for me. I don’t know why this happens, but it always has done. Even when I ‘worked for a…
That was the week that was
I didn’t have a great start to the week due to a rough night on Sunday and a long lie-in on Monday. However, I did manage to get some things…
