Tag: The Fool
Goldthorpe Writers: Monday 16 September 2019
We had a few more bodies turn up at the writers’ group this week, which meant we needed to find somewhere in the library that we wouldn’t disturb the other…
Friday 13 September 2019
My first 25 minutes yesterday were spent looking at houses. We’re not planning on moving any time soon, but I do like to keep an eye on the market and…
Diary of a pocket novel – the start of Act 2 Part 1
At the beginning of September I joined a quick online course, 14 Days to a Solid Writing Habit. Since we started the actual writing part of this course, I’ve been…
Thursday 12 September 2019
I’ve finally taken the leap and moved over to the WordPress *new* block editor. I resisted for such a long time because, well, I know where everything is on the…
Wednesday 11 September 2019
Yesterday was a very good day. It’s as though Tuesday is the new Monday. I’ve always been more enthusiastic and productive on a Monday and then it’s generally all downhill…
Goldthorpe Writers: Monday 9 September 2019
Despite various promises from various people, there were still only two of us at the writers’ group this week. Not that we mind, we get one-to-one feedback on several extracts…
Tuesday 10 September 2019
I’m starting to feel quite pleased with myself and the progress I’m making in Scrivener. having to reinstall it so many times (not Scrivener’s fault this time) is forcing me…
Monday 9 September 2019
Friday was a good day, although I was still faffing with Scrivener as it was a new reinstall. I’d learnt a lot of things during the outage the previous day…
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…
Friday 6 September 2019
Yahoo mail fell over yesterday, which meant I couldn’t pick up Day 4 of 14 Days … I did nip onto the forum to see if there was a link…
Goldthorpe Writers: Monday 2 September 2019
The schools still weren’t quite back on Monday when we met after the August bank holiday, and while there were three of us present this time, one of us, the…
Tuesday 20 August 2019
I finished the latest book for NetGalley and will be writing my review later this week. I really enjoyed this one, so much so I (a) bought a copy of…
Diary of a pocket novel – back on track
It’s been a long time since I did any new work on the pocket novel. Mostly I’ve been doing other stuff, stuff that pays my wages. But there were a…
Friday 16 August 2019
Yesterday was mostly spent doing the “heavy proofreading” job. It’s an interesting subject and I’m enjoying it very much. But it’s going to take some time. The new job that…
Thursday 15 August 2019
Not one but two jobs failed to arrive yesterday. One was probably delayed by the current riots in Hong Kong – they’re disrupting travel arrangements by the sound of it….
Goldthorpe Writers: Monday 12 August 2019
Apparently, we have one or two new members coming to join us in September. We should also get some of our absent members back too. I don’t know how Pauline…
Wednesday 14 August 2019
We had a good session at the writers’ group on Monday. I’ll be writing a report just as soon as I can fit one in. Yesterday was a very busy…
Monday 12 August 2019
Friday was a good day, even if I didn’t manage everything I wanted to do. I did a NetGalley book review and posted it to here, to Amazon, to Twitter…
Friday 9 August 2019
I’m so glad I scheduled yesterday’s post the evening before! What a disaster yesterday turned out to be. The BT engineer had said that they wouldn’t need to call at…
Thursday 8 August 2019
Much of Tuesday was spent doing the client edit. I had promised it back by Tuesday, and he was going to get it back by Tuesday. I’d completed the hard…
Goldthorpe Writers: Monday 5 August 2019
As there is likely to be just the two of us for a few weeks, we both agreed to either finish something else that we’ve started or else continue in…
Tuesday 6 August 2019
I’ve had a bit of a busy week where my own work has suffered – and some of my clients’ work. But I’m sorting a few things with my dad’s…
Goldthorpe Writers: “finish something”
The theme for this week’s meeting, for everyone, was “finish something”. This is because we had all started something for each of the various themes so far, or even just…
Thursday 25 July 2019
Yesterday’s to-do list was slightly adventurous … but I did it all. It doesn’t look a lot, but it is still time-consuming. I was late getting up, don’t forget, due…
Goldthorpe Writers: “this is the end”
Once again there were three of us at the meeting, plus one apology. We wish a speedy to recovery to our member who is currently getting over a recent operation….
Tuesday 23 July 2019
I got through quite a lot of work in a short time yesterday. It was a busy day. First of all I read the last few chapters of the NetGalley…
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….
Goldthorpe Writers: “the old man”
The group is still very much in its infancy and we’re still finding our feet, so the library forgot that we’d changed the start time this week from 2:00pm to…
Writing diary
I want to get back to blogging on a regular basis, with at least an update of what I did “yesterday” and what I intend to do “today”. I’ll still…
Busy writing, editing, proofreading …
My own work has become quite lax of late, with me either feeling very sorry for myself (tooth extraction) or concentrating on work for other people once again. (And I…
Goldthorpe Writers: Monday 8 July 2019
We welcomed another new member to the group yesterday, who hadn’t been able to come before now due to various reasons. But she hopes to be with us every week…
Goldthorpe Writers: “death at the pit-head”
I didn’t go to the meeting last Monday because I already had a dental appointment, and one we’d been waiting for for a long time. I had an email from…
Diary of a pocket novel – 1 step forward, 2 steps back
The murder board is really helping with the structure of the pocket novel. But I’ve been working recently on screen for my editing jobs and when I sat down to…