Category: writer at work

It’s publication day today for my SHORT STORY The Egg Thief, Wordsworth Short #38.  I created Horvale for Stevie Beck, a fictional dale in Yorkshire with villages, towns, rivers, dales,…

We have the best part of 2 weeks off during the month of May, though not necessarily at the same time. So I’ve had to squeeze a month’s work into…

We had a stunted April, thanks to the bank holidays and our mammoth road trip. I still got quite a lot done, though. April wrap-up! Here, then, is how April…

This feature is in association with NetGalley. Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of Beautiful Remains by Gwyn Bennett. This…

It’s publication day today for my VERY SHORT STORY The Mucky Duck, Flash Fiction #14.  In 2023, I started a writing challenge. The challenge was to write 12 short stories…

In the days leading up to Easter, I was busy doing a ton of stuff. Time was running out on me and I had a lot to do. A lot….

The weather changed on the Tuesday before Easter, which foiled my plans for getting all the washing dry. But I’d had a good run. It didn’t rain in the end,…

It’s publication day today for Words Worth Reading Issue 3, my quarterly bookazine. This quarter the bookazine contains three brand-new and exclusive short stories: Elvis is Missing; The Battle of…

After a relatively active Sunday, I did think I’d be in agony Monday morning. But I wasn’t. Always good to start the day with a bonus. Even better to start…

Oh my gosh, I got a lot done on Friday morning. I was up with the poet and making phone calls to do all sorts of things. Order our repeat…

We had to get up early yesterday morning to take the campervan to our mechanic as he was going to reset the radio code for us. We’d tried everything all…

While I was so busy fannying around with spreadsheets, I forgot to mention that The Life of Richard Cadbury has finally been released as a paperback. Just in time for…

After a busy week and a full weekend, I was amazed I was even up on time on Monday morning. I could have slept for another hour. But I had…

Despite Friday night being a gig night, we were up relatively early on Saturday because we had a lot to do. Well, a big job that would take some time….

I had such big intentions for Friday morning after wasting the entire day on Thursday. And then I slept in. Only by an hour, but I still had all of…

So yesterday started really well with all the usual chores. I hung a washload out, put another one through, fed and watered the garden birds, emptied the dishwasher, started to…

Tuesday was such a busy day, I wanted to take it easier on Wednesday. But there were more jobs on the to-do list and one of them took longer than…

…this is a long one. Friday Friday seems such a long time ago now. I was still working on The Christmas Tree Mystery, but I had to finish work early…

As I was, as ever, busy on the last day of the month, I’ll do a proper full weekend catchup tomorrow. I will say one thing, however… It was quite…

Friday began with my usual dirty cuppa, but instead of feeding the birds first, I had to jot down some notes that came to me in the early hours. Sally…

After getting up early on Wednesday, I slept in a bit on Thursday. I was only 10 minutes after the alarm, so not too bad. But I was tired. I’d…

The Jessica Brody (Save the Cat Writes a Novel) Zoom webinar was useful. She really is a good tutor. She keeps it interesting and lively and makes you think you’ve…

Writing the first scene of the new novella got me over the starting hump. Once that was down, the ideas started to come for the rest of the Act, and…

I seem to be getting back up to steam on the workflow. Friday was a good day, even if I didn’t get a lot of actual writing done for the…

And just like that, we’re in the last full week of March. Thursday evening, after tea, ended up with some unexpected Monkey Dust admin. They had a gig on Friday…

Time flies so quickly! It will be April soon. Having not yet settled on my next read, I didn’t do anything over my dirty cuppa yesterday, and I was at…

Yesterday wasn’t a bad day. Over my ‘dirty’ cuppa, I finished re-reading Jane Eyre. It’s one of the set reading books for the gothic writing workshop that happens at the…

March was always going to be a big month, even with a hospital visit and a 2-week convalescence. Then I lost 2 whole days to the tax/NI fiasco as well….

So I didn’t get around to scheduling a post on Thursday, writing a review for Saturday, or publishing a book today. I did, however, make it to surgery on Thursday…

Monday was publication day for Ash Wednesday, Flash Fiction #13. The plan was to plug it yesterday, as Monday’s post was the month ahead. But I missed yesterday too, so…

Once again, at the time of writing I was still up against the clock with Book 4 of the great novella challenge. Tune in tomorrow to see how I did…Unless…

I was up really early yesterday and the first hour of the day was spent scrolling through social media. When I think of the amount of work I still had…

As it was Wednesday, I had a midweek shopping errand to run. I’m keeping the midweek shopping errand. It gets the car out and moves my body on top of…