Summary: Busy, busy, but all good. Lots of interesting paid projects, and also significant progress on my own writing projects. So a great writing week all round! Tuesday: Back from holiday and eager to get back to work! I started out by editing the next section of the Haitian drama, then did the next […]
Author: Annie
Weeknotes – S05E34 – Work and Holiday
Summary: Getting excited about my new novel, and also working on a lot of interesting paid editing projects. Monday: I reviewed the film we went to see the night before and also approved edits on a short story of mine that’s in an upcoming anthology. Later, I had some more thoughts about Machine, so […]
Weeknotes – S05E33 – Breaking Ground
Summary: I started work on my fourth novel! This is very exciting, and suggests I have actually managed to find a balance now between paid editing and my own writing projects. Monday: As I worked on Sunday, I had planned to have the whole of today off, but a short, urgent task came through […]
Weeknotes – S05E32 – New Fiction Completed!
Summary: Lots more variety and plenty to do on the paid editing front. I also completed, got feedback on, revised and submitted my first new short story in a while! Plus, I did a tone of marketing for my upcoming second novel. So, a good, balanced week! Monday: I got some more editing work […]
Suffering in Silence
My story, Suffering in Silence, appears in Issue II of Hellhound Magazine. You can read it here. (Image by Steven Depolo)
A Spectrum of Heroes
My second novel, A Spectrum of Heroes, is out soon from Markosia Ltd. It’s got superpowers, it’s got aliens, it’s got relationship angst, it’s got badass ladies saving the world! The release date is 6 September but it’s available for pre-order now!
Unexpected new career!
“Are you still doing editing on the side?” Eight little words on WhatsApp, from a writer friend of mine, was all it took. We’d been exchanging short stories and novel manuscripts for feedback for years, ever since we both finished the first draft of our first novel on an Arvon course, back in […]
Weeknotes – S05E31 – Finding My Groove
Summary: Still lots of interesting work on the paid editing front, though I am finding it difficult to integrate my own writing into my new schedule, as I had feared. I have ideas about how to approach this, but I think it’s going to take some time to figure out. Monday: After a broken […]
Weeknotes – S05E30 – No Longer an Employee!
Summary: Transition week – my last day in my day-job was Friday, so now I’m free to pursue my new career in freelance editing, and hopefully get back to writing my own stuff (as well as having some time off)! Monday: Last week of fitting paid editing jobs around the day job! I had […]
Weeknotes – S05E29 – Still on the Treadmill
Summary: Penultimate week of juggling day-job and paid editing work! It was pretty busy, but good overall, with some more potential long-term clients in the pipeline. Monday: I got some more work from the magazine client overnight so I did that first thing. Then I went back to the parenting book for a bit, […]