Tag: Save the Cat Writes a Novel
Wednesday 27 March 2024: Hack attack!
At first I couldn’t remember what I’d done at all on Tuesday morning…and then it all came back to me. After 2 very early starts for me, which included putting…
Wednesday 20 March 2024: Feeling super!
Whenever I finish a job, I don’t just feel good once. I feel good several times. First off, there’s that initial feeling of accomplishment that I’ve finished something, in a…
Tuesday 19 March 2024: Busy weekend
Because I didn’t finish all of my work on Friday, I already knew I’d be working at the weekend. Saturday First thing Saturday we also had to take the dog…
Thursday 14 March 2024: My learning this week – new feature
Bouquet of fresh red tulip flowers sitting on dark surface background with copy space – depositphotos.com It’s free image day today, and this week it’s one I quite like so…
Wednesday 28 February 2024: A plot flaw?
Before we’d had our tea on Monday, son #2 came to see his dad for his birthday. He stayed for quite a while and we really put the world to…
Tuesday 27 February 2024: Dental checkups 😱
We ate out on Thursday, we had a takeaway on Friday, and we went for a meal on Sunday. We’re not eating very well at all at the moment, but…
Monday 11 September 2023: Anatomy of a messy desk
So this was the sight that greeted me when I went into the office this morning. I can’t stand an untidy desk and I can’t work at one. But this…
Camp NaNo April 2023: Prep work 1
It was still morning when I arrived at my desk yesterday and the first thing I did was pick up the workbook I’d deliberately left there the night before and…
I won an award
On Thursday evening I received a message via the contact form. It was from QueryLetter.com and it was to let me know that they’d given me an award. I receive…
Diary of a pocket novel – the end of Act 1
Thanks to my Monday afternoon writers’ group I’m being forced to work on the pocket novel. We’re supposed to bring something new to every session, either something we’re working on…
Wednesday 17 July 2019
It was so hot here yesterday I ended up stripping down to just a nightie and flip flops to sit and work in. That felt both refreshing and quite liberating….
Diary of a Novel: 2 April 2019
Having abandoned – temporarily – Catch the Rainbow, yesterday I started work on The Beast Within: a Marcie Craig mystery. Marcie Craig is the main protagonist and amateur sleuth in…
Getting out of the doldrums
I was feeling a tad overwhelmed this time last week when I posted about the various piles of work I had. But sorting them out and discussing it with the…
52 books in 52 weeks: Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
I set myself the goal of reading and reviewing 52 writing guides over the year. Here is book 44. Save the Cat! has been the last book on screenwriting that…