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Friday 11 July 2025: Weekend again already

And just like that…it’s Friday again! Crikey. I feel as though I’ve wasted an entire week, but actually, I should stop beating myself up. I spent several days working on…

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Thursday 10 July 2025: More book covers

First job Wednesday morning, after feeding the dog and the birds, was Week 3 of the 50 crime mystery prompts workshop. This is the final workshop in this course. I…

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Wednesday 9 July 2025: More faffing

Before I went into hospital back at the beginning of March, I’d lost 8lb on the 16:8 ‘diet’. When I came out of hospital, I had to take it easy…

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Tuesday 8 July 2025: Cover work

After a lovely break in Stratford last week, yesterday was back to normal, apart from having grand-doggy #1 with us to get us up on time. We were both exhausted…

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Friday 27 June 2025: Power failure

So I was busily working away on Thursday, going through the regular jobs on auto-pilot, thinking I had the whole day ahead of me. Which, of course, I did. Just…

0 296  2 Comments on Tuesday 25 February 2025: Falling behind
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Tuesday 25 February 2025: Falling behind

I did a lot of work at the weekend on the editing job and I finished yesterday’s blog post on Sunday so I could schedule it and carry on with…

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Monday 9 December 2024: Publication day!

Yes! It’s another publication day today. The City of Glasgow is another story I wrote for 12 Stories in 12 Months. We were given the prompt (1852) and the word-count…

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Thursday 5 December 2024: Catching up…

The bright-eyed and bushy-tailed may have noticed that the blog is running a bit behind at the moment, about half a day behind. This is because I’ve been writing it…

0 445  2 Comments on Tuesday 10 September 2024: Bonus work time
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Tuesday 10 September 2024: Bonus work time

I had bonus work time Monday morning as before I’d even got out of bed there was a text message from my dentist saying the hygienist was poorly and could…

0 424  4 Comments on Thursday 5 September 2024: Tired just looking at it all
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Thursday 5 September 2024: Tired just looking at it all

September work proper finally got underway yesterday. But still I had to rejig things around so that I don’t fall too far behind. I’ve had to step away from the…

0 425  2 Comments on Wednesday 4 September 2024: Free image Wednesday
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Wednesday 4 September 2024: Free image Wednesday

I had a play yesterday with AI-generated art, but I very quickly got confused and concerned about, well, everything really. Within an hour or so of publishing them, I took…

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Monday 19 August 2024: More unexpected DIY

I spent most of Friday catching up with the proofreading job. I’d done my own proofreading, but now I had to consolidate mine with the author’s and the proofreader’s. It…

0 526  4 Comments on Friday 16 August 2024: Up to my neck in pictures
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Friday 16 August 2024: Up to my neck in pictures

Oh, my goodness! I’ve only gone and chosen an image by the founder of Pixabay himself! 😮 The day started quite well yesterday. The plan was to finally send out…

0 638  4 Comments on Monday 12 February 2024: Budgeting to faff
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Monday 12 February 2024: Budgeting to faff

I often notice myself disappearing down various rabbit holes. And these rabbit holes can be all shapes and sizes. Usually, they’re research holes. Often, they’re faffing holes, where I start…

0 515  2 Comments on Friday 9 January 2024: Friday already?
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Friday 9 January 2024: Friday already?

Wow. Friday again. That came around quick… We both slept really well on Wednesday night resulting in us both getting up on time. I did get up with the poet…

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Friday 5 January 2024: Running smoothly

Wednesday I didn’t get up on time on Wednesday thanks to the dog waking me up at 4:30am and me failing to get back to sleep until 10 minutes after…

0 780  2 Comments on Monday 4 December 2023: New planning process
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Monday 4 December 2023: New planning process

I had to step away from both the blog and the planning work on Thursday and get on with some work. The blog was nudging 2,000 words and getting far…

0 633  3 Comments on Thursday 5 October 2023: “Have you written anything?”
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Thursday 5 October 2023: “Have you written anything?”

Him: “Who’s the musician in the house?” Me: “That’s my husband.” Him: “What do you do?” Me: “I’m a writer.” Him: “Really? Have you written anything?” [beat] Me: “What do…

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Thursday 21 September 2023: A bluff old cynic? Moi?

We’re both full of cold at the moment and the dog woke us up several times during the night. I still managed to get up on time, though, which was…

0 537  2 Comments on Tuesday 19 September 2023: A new gadget!
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Tuesday 19 September 2023: A new gadget!

I spent much of the weekend trying to focus on what work needs doing when. I spent a lot of time last week learning how to publish a magazine in…

0 555  2 Comments on Monday 18 September 2023: Learning a new skill
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Monday 18 September 2023: Learning a new skill

Thursday and Friday last week were both spent learning. I learned how to create a magazine pdf in Affinity and while I still have a lot to do before the…

0 575  2 Comments on Tuesday 5 September 2023: A slow start
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Tuesday 5 September 2023: A slow start

I had so many good intentions but when I woke up on Monday I was still really, really tired. On Saturday night I went to bed on drugs as it…

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Monday 7 August 2023: Making mockups

I think I blinked and missed the weekend… I had so much to do on Friday, and yet I spent ALL of it making mockups. I had a look at…

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Thursday 29 June 2023: Lots of reading

There was one thing I was struggling with on Affinity Publisher that I really wanted to sort out in my head. I couldn’t get the background of my magazine cover…

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Wednesday 28 June 2023: The machine worked but the tech got me

I finished playing with Affinity Publisher on Sunday evening just as Elton John was finishing his set at Glastonbury. I will definitely use Publisher and I have used Affinity Photo…

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Tuesday 27 June 2023: A shiny new toy

Friday was a bit of a lazy day in which I didn’t get through a lot of work, but I did do some things. Like hanging washing on the line,…

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To defect or not?

I have been a Windows gal for as long as we’ve been using Windows. I remember when the first Microsoft products started to come out. I started off on WordStar…