Summary: Working on creative projects felt very hard this week. I tried to balance productivity with self-compassion and didn’t push myself very hard at all. I didn’t get very much done and struggled with feeling dissatisfied with my lack of achievement. But, I still kept to my exercise routine, completed the most important writing tasks, […]
Author: Annie
Checking Off The List
My drabble, Checking Off The List, was shortlisted in the Maura Yzmore’s Quarantine Quanta Drabble Competition. You can find it here.
Weeknotes – SO4E14 – All Engines Go!
Summary: A very good week for writing this week. Progress on all fronts, a good plan for upcoming submissions and some fun challenges over the weekend. Very happy. Tuesday: I wrote a review of a book I finished over the weekend. Before I went to bed, I set my subconscious crew the task of coming […]
Novel-in-a-Day 9.5
I contributed a chapter to the ‘RED’ version of NiaD’s special lockdown edition, The District. You can download a copy here.
Mouthpiece
My short story, Mouthpiece, is included in the Keys to the Kingdom anthology from Black Hare Press. You can buy a copy here.
Weeknotes – S04E13 – Back on the Productivity Train!
Summary: First full week of UK lockdown, which initially looked like it wouldn’t be a productive one on the writing front. But this was turned around by fantastic people running workshops and retreats online, and a series of three days at the end of the week where I made real progress on fiction for the […]
Lockdown Lethargy – or not!
I feel like I haven’t really done much writing so far this year. We’re coming to the end of the first quarter, and my sense on thinking back is that I haven’t achieved anything at all. But, actually checking back through my records, that really isn’t true. So far in 2020, I have: Written […]
Weeknotes – S04E12 – Holiday Reviewing
Summary: Lots of reviews again, but I also finally got a short story rewrite done, which has been on my list for weeks. Monday: I did a Scribophile critique. Wednesday: I wrote lots more reviews of all the games I played earlier in the week. Thursday: I finished another book and played […]
The Regulations
My short story, The Regulations, is included in the Six-Before-Eighty edition of Thema Literary Journal. You can buy a copy here.
Weeknotes – S04E11 – Reviews A-go-go!
Summary: Mostly reviews this week, with a bit of new writing courtesy of an excellent workshop. Monday: I reviewed a film I went to see over the weekend, and also a book I finished after work. Tuesday: Big plans for today! I signed up for a freewriting workshop in Hammersmith early afternoon, and […]