Summary: Reasonably steady progress throughout the week, with particularly good sessions at the start and end. Glad to have finished a first draft of a long-ish short story that’s been in my head for weeks. Monday: There was a whole lot of faffing about with booking holidays, sorting admin, updating websites, reading online articles […]
Author: Annie
Weeknotes – S05E15 – Weird But Exciting Times
Summary: I have no idea what else happened this week (writing-related or non-writing-related) because contact with a publisher on Thursday and over the weekend pushed everything else into the background. Monday: I got feedback on my TL;DR Flash Fiction Competition entry so I tweaked it a bit and then submitted it. The final version […]
Stuck In Time
My story, Stuck in Time, is included in The Chorochronos Archives from JayHenge Publishing. You can buy a copy here.
Weeknotes – S05E14 – Go, Crew, Go!
Summary: Awesome week on the writing front, with the subconscious crew going absolutely above and beyond on the novel, a longish short story and a flash fiction piece – all without waking me up before 8:30am! Go, crew! Monday: I started out with my Hour of Writes marking for this week’s competition. Then, after […]
Weeknotes – S05E13 – Relinquishing the To-Do List
Summary: Lots of progress on lots of fronts this week, mostly fuelled by relinquishing the to-do list and trying to see my writing projects as things I want to spend time on, rather than obligations I have to get through before I can take time off. It worked really well, so hopefully I can maintain […]
Weeknotes – S05E12 – Progress on All Fronts
Summary: Lots more progress on the third novel, and even a draft of a new flash fiction piece as well, not to mention another podcast episode completed. Go, me! Monday: The subconscious crew started the week with a ton of new ideas for Safeguarding, filling in small (and huge) holes in the plot, working out […]
Weeknotes – S05E11 – Third Novel Well Underway
Summary: Good progress on the third novel, with some other bits and pieces thrown in – though I really want to dedicate some time to a new short story next week. Monday: I broke my usual rule this morning and started out with several submissions and a Bear post, rather than Safeguarding. But, in […]
Sticking With It
Fantasy author, Juliet McKenna, wrote a fantastic review of my debut novel, The Defiant Spark, recently, including some very interesting thoughts about reviewing in general. She also invited me to write a guest post on her blog and here’s what I came up with: I first met Juliet as one of my tutors at […]
Weeknotes – S05E10 – Breaking New Ground
Summary: I finally broke new ground on novel number three, which was exciting! I didn’t get quite as far as I’d hoped across the week, but all progress is good progress, and I’m very much on track for a completed first draft before the end of the year. Monday: Scheduled focus session with Ann […]