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 duty. It seems that the problem I had with the
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 13
Chapter 13 Publication Day! Today sees the publication of another Wordsworth Collection. Flash Fiction 2: Another Five Very Short Stories is exactly what it says it is. The book consists of 5 very short stories that are too short to
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Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 29 April
Chapter 17: Week commencing Friday 29 April Friday I’m writing much of this week’s diary in retrospect and I can’t for the life of me remember what kept me so busy on Friday. It was supposed to be ghostwriting, yet
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 12
Chapter 12 Publication Day! Today sees the publication of another Wordsworth Short. Around the Maypole is a story I wrote but didn’t send anywhere. I published it myself in Twee Tales Too and it’s since been published in Twee Tales More. You
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Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 15 April
Chapter 15: Week commencing Friday 15 April Friday It was Good Friday on Friday and, because I’d done all of my work, for the first time in ages I had the entire 4-day weekend ahead off. We pottered in the
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Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 1 April & Fri 8 April
Chapter 14: Week commencing Friday 1 April & Friday 8 April Friday (1 April) I remembered to come in and start the post on Friday this week, instead of try to remember it all the following Wednesday or Thursday. Even
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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 editing. I did actually do some other work, but it was
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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 this time rather than a self-published writer’s point of view.
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 11
See Chapter 10 here Chapter 11 Publication Day! Today sees the publication of another Wordsworth Short. The Phoenix Lights is a brand-new short story especially written for this challenge. Read more about how this story came about below. You can
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Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 11 Mar
Chapter 11: Week commencing Friday 11 March Friday Well, would you look at that! Chapter 11 starts on 11 March. (It’s the little things…) Friday dawned bright and sunny and the first job of my day was more date work.
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 10
See Chapter 9 here Chapter 10 Publication Day! Today sees the publication of another Wordsworth Short. I wrote Going, Going, Gone a long time ago and then couldn’t place it in a British magazine. A friend told me about Women’s Era magazine
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 9
See Chapter 8 here Chapter 9 Publication Day! Today sees the publication of another Wordsworth Collection. Ten Short Stories: Wordsworth Shorts 1 – 10 is the first of the new look anthologies of short stories. I had to rush this
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 8
See Chapter 7 here Chapter 8 Publication Day! Today sees the publication of another Wordsworth Short. Pancake Race is a short story I wrote a LONG time ago. I have two main characters, Paula and Sophie, and when I moved
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 7
See Chapter 6 here Chapter 7 Publication Day! Today sees the publication of another Wordsworth Collection. Twee Tales More is all three of the original Twee Tales short story collections in one omnibus edition, plus an extra four stories bringing
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 6
See Chapter 5 here Chapter 6 Publication Day! Today sees the publication of another Wordsworth Short. Alexandra’s Ragtag Band is a fun story I really enjoyed writing. I started with the title and took it from there. The first magazine
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