Pomodoros – Words Worth Writing

1 July 2022

Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 24 June

Chapter 25: Week commencing Friday 24 June Well, I’ve had a right mare of a week, losing 3 working days thanks to crappy tech that insists on doing what it wants to do instead of what it’s been bought and is being paid to do. Friday The scheduled post I hoped would auto-post on Friday did, which was a nice...

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24 June 2022

Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 17 June

Chapter 24: Week commencing Friday 17 June Friday I finally did some ghostwriting on Friday, having first got around the real names and places issue that was obviously bothering me. I’ve changed the pertinent names to ones I can work with, and I’ve renamed the location. But if the client wants me to put them all back again, I will...

diary of a tiger

17 June 2022

Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 10 June

Chapter 23: Week commencing Friday 10 June I’m back to normal again this week, starting the diary on a Friday. Hopefully everything else is back to normal too. Friday I was very busy all day on Friday. The only thing I did from my own list was daily competitions. The rest of the day was spent editing. It’s a big...

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4 March 2022

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 knew it was coming, I just didn’t know when, and it arrived on Friday morning, when I edited it and set it and liaised with the organisers. The post appeared...

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24 November 2021

Falling behind with NaNoWriMo…

… but I still have time to catch up. It just wasn’t yesterday. I was also behind on the ghostwriting, although I did manage to write two more chapters on Monday night – one before tea and one after. I was still behind, though, so I turned yesterday on its head with the intention of doing the ghostwriting first… Don’t...

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19 November 2021

NaNoWriMo 2021 Days 12 – 18

It’s been a whole week since I updated everyone on my NaNoWriMo progress. This is mostly because I took some time off. I took two days to catch up with and clear a ghostwriting instalment, and then I took two days holiday. Day 12 Last Friday, then, which was Day 12, I wrote a blog post, duplicated a blog post...

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26 August 2021

Don’t want to

I’m a bit demob happy this week, as we break up for a week’s holiday on Friday (first holiday in more than two years!). I’ve also been feeling a bit demotivated. I think the two may be connected, and it might be why I try not to get too excited too soon too often about things. However, I suppose I...

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2 August 2021

Project Management for Writers: Gate 1 is DONE! 🥳

(Scrivener screenshot) Thursday Instead of making handwriting the first job of the day on Thursday, I wrote a call-to-action blog post for Project Management for Writers: Gate 1. This was because I had to fire up the computer to (a) add a featured image to a blog post, and (b) see if the gardener was coming. There was nothing from...

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29 July 2021

Thunderstorms at last!

(Image by Brin Weins from Pixabay) Wednesday After such a lazy day on Tuesday, I was surprised that I actually made it to my desk at 10am, on the cuckoo! I went straight into my first Pomodoro, which was handwriting work. For my handwriting work this week, I’m doing the exercises in Get Started in Creative Writing. I started today’s blog...

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23 July 2021

Today will be a long day

Image by Monoar Rahman Rony from Pixabay Thursday I was still eating breakfast on Thursday morning when a text notified me that the plumber would be with us in 20 minutes to fix a faulty valve. Twenty minutes. So I quickly finished eating and got dressed and he arrived at the door at about the same time I arrived downstairs...

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7 May 2021

Against the clock

Image by nile from Pixabay As usual I’m working against the clock to get the first instalment of the 4th ghostwriting gig submitted in time. Deadline is today, and at the start of today I still had just over 11,000 words to write. Why have I left it so long? Well, this time I can’t blame faffing or book covers...

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19 April 2021

Classic editing

Friday disappeared down a dark hole when I ended up in a support conversation with WordPress due to one post not auto-posting to Facebook, the Facebook Share button not working (on the same post), and then the preview not working when I copied the URL over manually. We worked out a quick fix, which isn’t ideal, particularly as I’m paying...

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23 March 2021

Dream

Image by Comfreak from Pixabay The plan was to have a weekend off and maybe catch up with some reading or sewing. I did manage to read a few chapters of a book I want to review soon, but I didn’t do any sewing. Walking However, on Saturday, after we’d done the shopping – early for a change – we...

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