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Tag: pomodoro technique

Wednesday 4 Jan 2023: Pomodoro Baby!

4 January 2023 Diane writer at work

Tuesday started really late for me. This was too bad as it was the first day of the new year and I had great plans to follow. The problem was, we got up late, and we got up late because

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NaNoWriMo Prep Day Zero

21 October 2021 Diane NaNoWriMo

Prep Day Zero is actually all of the prep work for the prep work. For me, it’s reminding myself of the steps that work when I outline a project, and this week I’ve created tasks in my Asana project file.

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Pomodoros rule!

22 March 2021 Diane writer at work

I was late again to my desk on Friday morning, but I had done a lot of work already on the mobile phone, both in bed and over breakfast. For example, I checked emails, the bank and social media, and

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Stormy night

12 March 2021 Diane writer at work

Image by janrye from Pixabay We had a heavy storm overnight on Wednesday. It was more windy than rainy, but I liked this image above as soon as it popped up. Wistfully we said it was good that we didn’t

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NaNoWriMo Prep: Days 2, 3 & 4

29 October 2020 Diane writer at work

I’ve been working through the prep days for NaNoWriMo, trying to do everything in a certain order. Because I’ve decided on The Beast Within, much of the character work is already done, and the book is semi-outlined all the way through.

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NaNoWriMo: And the winner is …

27 October 2020 Diane writer at work

Today should have been NaNoWriMo Prep: Day 2. But after a long weekend, and with NaNoWriMo looming only this weekend, I had quite a lot of admin work to do. First of all I had to tidy up my online calendar.

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Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 20 (last day)

31 July 2020 Diane Uncategorized

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, so that was another extra hour today. I hoped that

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Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 19 of 20 (in the end)

30 July 2020 Diane Uncategorized

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 home and he had a Skype meeting (or a Team

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Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 16

27 July 2020 Diane Uncategorized

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 Friday. Next week, I add a different project to my

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Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 5

8 July 2020 Diane Uncategorized

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 I’m not doing a 31-day writing month. I’m doing a

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Diary of a non-fiction book: Website research

9 December 2019 Diane writer at work

I have been beavering away at the biography, but it is dragging on a bit now. We had so many interferences and interruptions that the deadline kept on being pushed back. I was ill and then the poet was ill

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Thursday 14 November 2019

14 November 2019 Diane writer at work

Hmm. Not only is the old classic WordPress interface much easier and quicker to use, it also posts when I schedule it to. The new editor isn’t exactly on a winning streak at the moment … Yesterday was a good

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Thursday 10 October 2019

10 October 2019 Diane writer at work

You’ll be pleased to know I finally made some inroads on the copywriting job yesterday.  I started with some handwriting practise because my handwriting is becoming quite unreadable. Then I wrote up the day’s Pomodoros, because I hadn’t had chance

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Wednesday 9 October 2019

9 October 2019 Diane writer at work

The morning went well yesterday, starting with me writing up the day’s Pomodoros. I was out on Monday afternoon and didn’t have time to do it at the end of the day.  I wrote my daily blog post and I

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Tuesday 8 October 2019

8 October 2019 Diane writer at work

The day began yesterday with a blog post, and then I was onto the client copywriting job. I located and printed off all the research notes I wanted, and collated everything together ready to go. I also started to jot

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