Words Worth Writing

We didn’t do a great deal at the weekend. We did the shopping on Saturday and nipped in to see the band’s drummer. The next-door neighbour was having his chimney…

Before I carry on, I’d just like to say IT’S PUBLICATION DAY! Paper Roses, a Wordsworth short, is out today! You can buy it from Books2Read/DianeWordsworth. Right, after I posted…

When I wrote up yesterday’s blog post, yesterday, I couldn’t remember what I’d spent most of Wednesday doing. And then I remembered. It was budget day in the UK on…

I filed my tax return yesterday. Outside of finalising, publishing and sharing yesterday’s blog post, this was the first thing I did. Despite me doing all of the leg work…

With nowhere to sit yesterday morning, because most of the living room furniture was stacked in the dining room and I couldn’t get to any of the dining furniture, the…

Our internet is shocking at the moment. The entire village have been complaining, despite high-speed cables being laid beneath the roads in recent months. We’re getting all the upheaval of…

Much of Friday was spent finishing my wonderful spreadsheet – and it truly is marvellous. I keep wanting to look at it, to touch it, to play with the figures…

I started to write this with a view to publishing it yesterday, but it got longer and longer and longer and I still had to write yesterday’s Writing Prompts. So…

Topical & evergreen ideas editors want to see Every month I do a think/write/submit writing exercise. I usually ‘think’ around 6 months ahead, which means in October, I’m ‘thinking’ April, ‘writing’…

Once I ran out of daylight on Monday, I put the date work to one side to cool. Usually I go through and choose 5 of the anniversaries for my…

First job on Monday was Monday’s blog post. I’d started it on Friday and intended to complete it over the weekend as I worked. As I didn’t work at the…

I forgot to mention in Friday’s post that on Wednesday the money I was owed by Vocal landed in my bank account. On Thursday morning, another job I did from…

I was a day behind all week on my blog posts, so when the poet finished his work on Wednesday and we decided to head home on Thursday, I didn’t…

I didn’t sleep very well on Monday night. The room was too warm, the bed was too small, I had a gazillion things on my mind trying to remember to…

We had to cancel Saturday’s Monkey Dust gig due to the poet losing his voice. He’d had a cold all week and had cancelled band practice on Thursday in order…

We had a late night on Thursday, binge watching something on Netflix. Fortunately, it meant we were still up to watch one of the apparently best ever shows of the…

So it’s Friday again already! [sigh!] This week seems to have flown by. I didn’t bake any cookies on Wednesday night but I did make the pear sponge. We were…

When I got up yesterday I was convinced it was Tuesday. I still had my story to write for 12 STORIES IN 12 MONTHS. But it was fine, I still…

I had such a leisurely start yesterday, not rushing or worrying. I mean, I had ALL day to write a story that was due in today, and I’d already done…

Monday morning began with me finalising the outline for THE MYSTERY AT HORTON EDGE on Story Plotter on my tablet, which I did straight after breakfast while still in my…

I started the job of deleting my stories from Vocal on Thursday, after I’d scheduled Friday’s post to publish, beginning with the date-specific topical stories that won’t make sense now….

I skipped a few more regular daily posts over the past couple of days due to the September wrap-up, the Hello October, the book review, and the Take One Idea…

How to farm 50 more ideas to write about from just one Last week I wrote about 28 ideas you can write about that will be topical in March 2025….

Book review: COMING HOME TO THE WINDMILL BY THE SEA by Caroline Young This feature is in association with NetGalley. Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting…

I do love autumn. I love the fact the nights are drawing in. I love cosying up in front of the fire. My breakfast cereal starts to have hot milk…

September disappeared a bit sharpish off the scale and I suddenly realised that the end of the month was upon us.  Today’s post is short and sweet, but here’s how…

I skipped a regular daily post yesterday because the writing ideas post is such a long one. Next week, I’ll share the ‘take one idea’ post for March too. I’ve…

Topical & evergreen ideas to write about that editors want to see Welcome back to an old favourite! Every month I do a think/write/submit writing exercise. I usually ‘think’ around…

We were up fairly early yesterday due to a dermatology appointment for me at the hospital – the first of 3 this week. But I didn’t have time to get…

(Note: I did a tap dance once to I’M BUSY DOING NOTHING, and wore a pair of dungarees my mom’d had made for the occasion. Hence today’s picture…) I seem…

I didn’t get around to a lot of work on Friday as I already knew we were on a tight schedule to get to Friday’s camp site. We had to…

Book review: A POCKETFUL OF DIAMONDS by Pam Lecky This feature is in association with NetGalley. Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting me see an advance…

I was late again publishing the day’s blog post, as I’d left it dangling the night before. I finalised that and got it posted, then started on today’s straight away….