Breathe a little
I’m starting to run out of pictures from our Hatfield Moor trip, so we’ll have to go out again and get some more. Fortunately, we have the last of our…
Coming soon!
The reviews have started to come in already, which means that the advance reader copies have gone out, which means that this book is almost here! The Life of Richard…
Quick plug: A History of Cadbury
I am still up against the clock, but I found time to do a quick plug. Ahead of publication of The Life of Richard Cadbury, which is due on 30 November,…
Ghostwriting
Here is another picture from our recent walk around Hatfield Moor. The tree is a young silver birch and it comes under 2 photography subject classifications (that I know of)….
Welcome!
A massive hello and welcome to a raft of new followers who have arrived over the past day or so. I don’t know where you have all come from, but…
NaNoWriMo: Day 5
So it’s Day 5 for me for NaNoWriMo, despite it being 10 November. It isn’t going great at the moment, I will admit. This is because after I spent time…
NaNoWriMo: Day 1 of 17
Yesterday, then, was the start of my NaNoWriMo journey for 2020. I have around 17 days in which to write 50,000 words, and that gives me a daily target of…
NaNoWriMo Prep: Day 5
My NaNoWriMo for 2020 starts today. I’m still having weekends off, and I’m still having some long weekends with the poet. This means that my daily target is just under…
NaNoWriMo Prep: Days 2, 3 & 4
I’ve been working through the prep days for NaNoWriMo, trying to do everything in a certain order. Because I’ve decided on The Beast Within, much of the character work is already…
NaNoWriMo: And the winner is …
Today should have been NaNoWriMo Prep: Day 2. But after a long weekend, and with NaNoWriMo looming only this weekend, I had quite a lot of admin work to do. First…
NaNoWriMo Prep: Day 1
NaNoWriMo would not be the same without the participant badge and every year, in case you hadn’t noticed, I do like to display said badge. So, here it is. I…
Tier 3 lockdown
Here is another image from our walk around Hatfield Moor last week. I love that blue glow on the water. It makes it look like some kind of grotto, or…
Back to novelling
I am such a tease, knowing that the title will irk at least a couple of my friends when they see it! I can hear them now complaining about the…
Indexing
Today, I am doing the index for The Life of Richard Cadbury. The one job I dislike the most about writing is the indexing. So, for now, I leave you…
Technical issues
Here is another view from Hatfield Moor. The peat moors are quite ancient and this is part of what they call the Neolithic Way. These little paths wind all over…
Tier 2 lockdown
Wahey! I finally found out how to place a picture where I want it instead of where WP thinks I want it! And how to resize it too! I’m on…
Hatfield Moor
WordPress was having a bit of a hissy fit today. First of all, it wouldn’t let me create or edit a post in Edge, and then it wouldn’t let me…
This week, Matthew, I’m going to be a novelist …
This 3D picture of Mr Punch has been on many of my phones for a very long time. I found him on an artist’s website, and I remember being very…
Again, I write
The picture shows my current workstation. The lectern on the left currently holds some notes for Catch the Rainbow. These notes relate to the arrests of the Birmingham Six on…
Today, I am a writer
I had a bit of a strange experience yesterday. I’m admin on a Facebook group, the Seriously Serious Scribes, and last week I set off two new daily threads for…
One job at a time
I don’t have any pictures to hand today, and I don’t have time to sort one out. So here’s one courtesy of Pixabay. Today I am not a happy bunny…
Coming soon! + Links galore!
My book, The Life of Richard Cadbury, is due to be released on 30 November. The book is available for pre-order from Pen & Sword Books and from Amazon UK….
Writing and proofreading and indexing, oh my!
The River Torne is a river the poet used to fish when ‘e worra lad (when he was a young man). In those days, the lads used to wait until…
Writing with gay abandon
I managed to hit my desk by 9am yesterday morning, so that’s something. We’ll ignore the fact that I then went to get dressed … At least the garden wasn’t…
And she’s off … well, sort of …
Yesterday didn’t start as planned and by the time I settled down to work, it was almost time to start the ghostwriting gig. Scrivener I’d already tried and failed to…
As busy as a bee 🐝
Image by chezbeate from Pixabay After watching the weather, the poet decided to go fishing on Friday. So I put together an editing bag and took the work with me…
Broadening horizons
(Image by Lenka Novotná from Pixabay) I’ve been umming and ahhing for well over a year about turning my hand to ghostwriting. Of course, much of my B2B and SEO…
Oops, forgot to give it a title!
Dog walk The dog and I once again attempted to find the circular path the three-legged dog and its humans had used, this time armed with the poet. Last week,…
Where to hide a body
Sorry for the “click bait”, but I didn’t know what else to call it today! 😇 This picture was originally tucked inside an envelope and given to me on my…
Proofreading and writing
This picture is a magazine mock-up that my Smoggie snapper (Teesside photographer) made for me when I left Corus/Tata. The front cover image is of a blowout and I wanted…
Decluttering the cluttered computer
This clock was made for me by a friend many moons ago, possibly in the mid-90s. Her boyfriend was just setting up in business making and selling dolls houses and…
Writing a stream of consciousness + permissions
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. (Qualifying links updated at 11:50am UK time on Monday 14 September 2020.) Last week we were watching an episode of…
My new office
I always wanted one of those offices that were next to the front door, at the bottom of the stairs. And now I have one. (See first picture.) The room…
