Wordsworth Collections – Words Worth Writing

17 October 2022

Publication Day! 2… (And Book 52!)

Publication Day It’s Publication Day today for the next book in my publishing challenge. This one is Book 52! (Of 54.) And that means that I met my 52 books in 52 weeks publishing challenge! Yay me! 🎊 🎉 🎈 Five Short Stories for Autumn is the latest of my Wordsworth Collections and it contains, well, five stories that have...

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10 October 2022

Publication Day! 4…

Publication Day It’s Publication Day today for the next book in my publishing challenge. This one is Book 51! (Of 54.) Ten Short Stories 21 – 30 is the latest of my Wordsworth Collections and it contains Wordsworth Shorts 21 – 30, and #30 is a brand-new story that hasn’t even been published as a standalone yet. (Watch this space...

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3 October 2022

Publication Day! And counting down… 5…

Publication Day It’s Publication Day today for the next book in my publishing challenge, and we’re also counting down to the end of the challenge. This one is Book 50! (Of 54.) Flash Fiction 3 is the latest of my Wordsworth Collections and it contains 5 very short stories. Each of the stories is under 1,200 words and all bar...

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26 September 2022

Publication Day! And back to work!

Publication Day It’s Publication Day today for the next book in my publishing challenge. Five Slightly Sinister Short Stories is the latest of my Wordsworth Collections and it contains, well, 5 stories that are a bit sinister and a bit short. You can find all of my books on the BUY MY BOOKS tab on the blog, or you can...

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27 June 2022

Publication Day!

As usual I’m a bit busy, but that still doesn’t interrupt the publishing schedule. Today, Five Third Age Short Stories is published! This is a collection of, well, five short stories that all feature older characters. You can find all of my books on the BUY MY BOOKS tab on the blog, or you can go to www.books2read.com/DianeWordsworth. Alternatively, you...

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30 May 2022

Publishing Challenge! Chapter 14

Chapter 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. I wasn’t idle, though. I still maintained my book a week challenge. Publication Days! Week 1, or 16 May, saw...

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13 May 2022

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 duty. It seems that the problem I had with the project planner is now resolved. I’m not sure if I fixed it the best way it can be fixed, but...

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9 May 2022

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 publish as standalone Wordsworth Shorts. They’re all also available in Twee Tales More, but this is specifically 5 stories under 1,200...

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11 March 2022

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 do and when. You can read more about this in Monday’s publishing challenge post. The next thing I did was add the three new calls for submission to the schedule....

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7 March 2022

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 one through as I thought I was going to be doing jury service on publication day. It took longer than...

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21 February 2022

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 it to 40 short stories altogether. At the moment, this is the last of my Twee Tales collections as I’m...

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18 February 2022

Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 11 Feb

Chapter 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 leave the house for the funeral a lot earlier than I thought we would, I spent Thursday night finishing the...

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14 February 2022

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 I submitted it to liked it, but asked if I could (a) add about 200 words, and (b) play down...

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11 February 2022

Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 4 Feb

Chapter 6: Week commencing Friday 4 February Friday February already, and not even the 1st of February but the 4th. Already this year is flying by. I had a lot of ghostwriting to do again on Friday, but I was still suffering from the staring-at-a-blank-screen syndrome. So I had a bit of a trawl for images to illustrated the 10-story...

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4 February 2022

Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 28 Jan

Chapter 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 management tasks to the diary. The other thing I did was revive my old Smashwords account. When *another* friend told...

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24 January 2022

Publishing Challenge! Chapter 4

See Chapter 3 here Chapter 4 I missed blogging about the publishing challenge last week because last Monday was a very busy day. I worked solidly on client work and didn’t finish until 10pm. Apologies for that. This doesn’t mean that I’ve been idle, though. The publishing challenge is still on track. I just didn’t have chance to write about...

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14 January 2022

Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 7 Jan

Chapter 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, and one lazy day, Friday was back to normal pretty much. The first job I did was a full readthrough...

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10 January 2022

Publishing Challenge!

See Chapter 2 here Chapter 3 Today is publication day for Flash Fiction: five very short stories. This is a collection of short stories that all run to under 1,200 words each, including two very, very short stories. The reason I lumped five together is because one of the distributors doesn’t like anything less than 10,000 words. That was fine, I...

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