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
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Diane Wordsworth: freelance writer ● novelist ● editor ● ghostwriter ● book reviewer ● member of the CWA ● world-famous nutter-magnet
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
Read moreChapter 14 It’s been 3 weeks since my last publication challenge post. This is because I was really busy over that period, apart from the last week when I finally got to work on my own stuff for a week.
Read moreChapter 20: Week commencing Friday 20 May Friday I really didn’t feel like doing any work on Thursday, especially after the writing marathon the previous day/night. But I still had a deadline to meet, and pushed on and met it.
Read moreChapter 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.
Read moreChapter 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 do and when. You can read more about this in
Read moreChapter 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 an extra couple of hours. I spent most of them
Read moreChapter 7: Week commencing Friday 11 February Friday The plan on Friday was to spend the morning completing the final few chapters for GW1 Book 8 before going to a funeral. However, when I found out that we had to
Read moreChapter 5: Week commencing Friday 28 January Friday Friday last week was another ghostwriting day. I did the revisions for GW2 and I had a look at GW1. I didn’t write any new chapters, but I did transfer the project
Read moreChapter 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 a cover for the next book in the flash fiction
Read moreChapter 2: Week commencing Friday 7 January Friday Yes, we start this week’s diary on Friday. This is because I post it on a Friday and in a lot of cases, schedule it the day before. After a busy week,
Read moreWelcome to the new instalment in the Diary of… series. The Diary of… series is a set of three books, each one set against a year in the life of a freelance writer. Book 1 is Diary of a Scaredy
Read moreI’ve had a busy couple of weeks, mostly doing one of two things: Planning Ghostwriting I break up for Christmas on 16 December. Before then I had 40,000 words to write for one client and 20,000 words to write for
Read moreWith me falling quite a way behind, I finally managed to crack on with some NaNo, hopefully in time to rescue the situation. On Friday, Day 26, I had just under 18,000 words to go, which gave me 5 days
Read moreOn Thursday evening I received a message via the contact form. It was from QueryLetter.com and it was to let me know that they’d given me an award. I receive a lot of spam via the contact form, so the
Read moreI had a late start for Day 4 of NaNo. A VERY late start. And I also had a lot of work to do. However, I still wanted to do my NaNo bit for the day and while it wasn’t
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