June wrap-up

My writing

As far as the plan for the month went, I didn’t get around to writing as much as I wanted of my own stuff. Yes, there are a few ticks below, but there are many, many more crosses.

Project Management for Writers – finish writing as many chapters as I can (< 9,000 words) ❎
Project Management for Writers – get the poet’s input on as many chapters as I can ❎
Night Crawler – publish 29 individual chapters (of 34, I’ll include the epilogue with Ch 34), one at a time, on Medium ✅
Diary of a Scaredy Cat – publish 29 individual chapters (of 37, but some will be merged and others dropped), one at a time, on Medium ✅
Republish 5 x Wednesday Writing Prompts on Medium ✅
Publish Arrivederci Roma on Medium ✅
Republish Twee Tales in paperback ✅
Republish Twee Tales Too in paperback ✅
Republish Twee Tales Twee in paperback ❎
Think about the 1,000 followers competition ✅
Plan The Two of Wands short story ❎
Plan The Ace of Cups short story ❎
Write The Two of Wands (3,500 words) ❎
Plan The Ace of Swords short story ❎
Plan The Ace of Pentacles short story ❎
write 9,000 words for The Beast Within ❎
outline & query new finance series article #1 ❗(started)
outline & query new finance series article #2 ❎
outline & query new finance series article #3 ❎
outline & query new finance series article #4 ❎
outline & query new finance series article #5 ❎
write new finance series article #1 (2,000 words) ❎
write one new standalone short story (2,000 words) ❎

While the paperback publishing was down to technology not working, I now need to push harder on my own work in July.

Client work

I did, however, do all of the client jobs that were already in on 1 June:

write & submit blurb for ghostwriting book #4 (500 words) ✅
finish & submit 3rd ghostwriting instalment, book #4 (20,000 words) ✅
finish & submit bonus short story for ghostwriting client, book #4 (3,000 words) ✅
start 1st ghostwriting instalment, book #5 (16,000 words) ✅

Personal

My weight fluctuated up and down a bit, but by the end of my initial 6 weeks, I’d lost 5lb and achieved my first ‘body magic’ certificate – bronze award. The longest walk we managed was just 1½ miles.

lose weight ✅
join Slimming World ✅
increase walks to 2½ miles (carried over from last month) ❎

Extras

So, what did I end up doing for most of June? Most of it was extra work I hadn’t originally planned for. From the top:

I wrote 802 words for Project Management for Writers
started work on a query for the first in a series of articles on finance for writers
started work on a query for the first in a series of articles on markets for writers
took the cat to the vet several times
republished Baggins Bottom Best Bits Books 1 & 2 on Kindle Unlimited
republished Baggins Bottom Best Bits Books 1 & 2 in paperback
started to republish Baggins Bottom Best Bits Book 3
fielded our new ‘pop-up’ neighbour
took the poet for his second Covid jab
wrote 14,275 words in one day!
published a short story, Ash Wednesday, on Medium
rewrote and published How to Quickly Access Classic Editor on WordPress on Medium
rewrote and published The Income Octopus on Medium
wrote and published How to Publish More Than 3 Stories a Day on Medium on Medium
indexed all of my stories on Medium and created a master index
rewrote and published Do You Need a Logo? on Medium
designed 3 new covers for the latest Kindle Unlimited publications
published those 3 short stories on Kindle Unlimited
designed flyer for 3 new stories on Kindle Unlimited
created a series on Kindle Unlimited and added all 6 stories so far
published Bonfire Party on Medium
created three new covers for the Twee Tales collection
limped past the 1,000 followers mark
created another publication on Medium, The Alphabet Adventurers
published A is for… Aysgarth Falls on Medium
wrote In Search of Little John’s Grave for a publication on Medium
went for my second Covid jab
had both of our hairs cut
started a daily 5-minute email declutter
published Careful What You Wish For on Medium
published B is for… Bolton Abbey on Medium
finished editing job for Yorkshire client