Summary: I had to do a freelance mindset pivot when lots of paid work suddenly materialised, but yay for getting paid for stuff I enjoy! Still also plodding along with the novel. Monday: My giant RPG editing project got signed off (three months late) over the weekend but I wasn’t expecting to be working […]
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Weeknotes – S03E36 – Still Plugging Away
Summary: Still plugging away at the novel, but a bit of a slow-down on the paid editing front. Monday: Despite not feeling very positive about my self-publishing journey with my first novel, The Defiant Spark, I completed some potential marketing activities for it this morning. I also continued editing the mindset book and my […]
Weeknotes – S08E35 – New Writing Support Group
Summary: A bit light on the work front, but some unexpected repeat clients popping up to tide me over. Great writing solidarity from friends and good progress on the new novel, despite a lack of motivation. Monday: I’d spent the last four days on a solo reading retreat, completing four whole books, so I […]
Self-Publishing Woes
While this blog post is quite negative, I very strongly acknowledge that I am in an extremely lucky position in a lot of ways, including regarding my writing. Also, a large number of people have gone out of their way to help and support me on my writing journey (including this latest stage), and I’m […]
Weeknotes – S08E34 – Self-Publishing Stress
Summary: Very little paid editing work but that’s okay, lots of freeglancing but that’s okay too. Progress on my latest novel and self-publishing my first – tough but worth it? Monday: Two of my writer friends sent me drafts of their latest books to review over the weekend, so I slotted them into the […]
Weeknotes – S08E33 – Time is Moving On and So Are My Projects
Summary: Plodding along with all my various client work and projects. Monday: I carried on providing developmental feedback on a client’s thriller, and also started copy editing a YA fantasy novel, written by the brother of one of the writers I met on retreat last month. Later, I freeglanced a new blog article for […]
Reviews Revisited – This is How You Lose the Time War
This is a transcript of my latest podcast episode – you can listen to the episode here. 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 […]
Weeknotes – S08E32 – Novel Going Well
Summary: Lots of good progress on my latest novel, which is great. Plus, teetering on the brink of a big paid editing project – just waiting for the client to press go! Monday: It felt a bit more like I was back in the usual swing of things today – though a couple of […]
Weeknotes – S08E31 – Back to Reality
Summary: Back to reality after being on retreat – always a difficult transition. But softened by having interesting paid work to do and being enthusiastic about embarking on the first draft of my new novel. Monday: It was back to reality today, after a glorious week away on retreat. I had plenty of paid […]
New Approach to Novel Writing
I’ve been writing novels for over ten years now, which is pretty wild to think about! I’m calling my latest one number seven – though four has only reached novella length and six was non-fiction. Still, that’s quite a few, so you’d think I’d know what I was doing by now… But no! […]