Do you ever find yourself in a situation where you’ve dedicated time, effort and/or money to something and that makes it difficult to see when it’s time to let it go? That’s called the sunk cost fallacy and it can be really hard sometimes to recognise when that’s what you’re experiencing and do something about […]
Author: Annie
Weeknotes – S08E53 – Ending and Starting
Summary: Good end/start to the year! I very much enjoyed not yet returning to real life and instead spending most of my time playing games, reading and preparing to delay real life further by going on retreat… Monday: Is this the last week of 2024 or the first week of 2025? Since, for me, […]
Reviews Revisited – Project Hail Mary
This is a transcript of my latest podcast episode. Hello and welcome to Resurrected Reviews Revisited, part of the Will You Still Love It Tomorrow podcast. I’m Annie and, in each Reviews episode, I pick something I’ve reviewed sometime since 2005, reread or rewatch it, and then compare my reactions. Fair warning: there will be […]
Weeknotes – S08E52 – Working On Christmas Day…
Summary: Working on Christmas Day? Ridiculous! Ah well… Otherwise, lots of planning and goal-setting, which is traditional at this time of year. Wednesday: A client contacted me with a query about a book I’d edited for her earlier in the year and it seemed time sensitive, so I did a couple of hours of […]
Weeknotes – S08E51 – I’m Checking My List…
Summary: Lots of clearing things off lists this week, reflecting on the past year and looking forward to new opportunities, new writing, new books for 2025! Monday: I woke up with ideas in my head about the last third of my current novel, A Wizard Calls My Name, so I added some more notes […]
Reflections on 2024
I have an exercise I do at the end of each year, where I track the number of hours of paid work I completed across the year (329.5), the total amount I earned for those hours (£20,275), and therefore my average hourly rate (£62). This year, I worked 62 hours fewer than in 2023, but […]
Weeknotes – S08E50 – Glorious Reading Retreat
Summary: This was mostly a reading retreat week – glorious! But I did manage to fit some writing/editing/creative stuff around the edges. Monday: It was a busy day today! I worked on editing my current big paid client project in the morning – a YA fantasy novel – and also had a coaching call […]
Avoiding the Pendulum
Have you ever had a situation where you’ve tried really hard at something, swung wildly out of control and then over-corrected, so you ended up going too far back the other way? I know my humans have experienced this when trying to drive a narrowboat. it’s very easy to steer too far in one direction, […]
Weeknotes – S08E49 – The End is Nigh
Summary: Lots of podcasting this week, which is always fun. Plus a decent amount of paid work to tide me over into the new year. Monday: With excellent timing, my next paid editing project dropped into my inbox last night, so I spent a very pleasant morning copy editing a lovely queer romance novella. […]
Reviews Revisited – Five-Star Book Search
This is the transcript of my latest podcast episode. Hello and welcome to Resurrected Reviews Revisited, part of the Will You Still Love It Tomorrow podcast. I’m Annie and, usually, in each Reviews episode, I pick something I’ve reviewed sometime since 2005, reread or rewatch it, and then compare my reactions. Fair warning: there […]