Summary: Great Christmas week – all client work completed plus all targets for personal projects achieved. I’ve set myself up for a great start to 2023! Monday: My only remaining client editing project for the year was the reflective novella, so I did comments for a chunk of that this morning. I also edited […]
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Motivational Misdirection
Brains are so weird… I’ve spent months trying to ‘get back into a proper routine’ and get my fifth novel back on my list to work on. I’ve made so many plans to go to the cafe and ‘really focus’, to alternate client and personal projects in my schedule, to keep working on stuff […]
Weeknotes – S06E50 – Push For Year End
Summary: I feel like this week went really well – I completed two whole client projects from start to finish and also started submitting my nonfiction book to agents, as well as keeping on top of podcast obligations. Monday: I started two new paid editing projects today – a book about sustainable parenting and […]
Weeknotes – S06E49 – Last Push to the End of the Year
Summary: Something clicked again this week and I revised the whole of my nonfiction book in one setting – with lots of paid work completed as well! Monday: With an evening theatre trip in town to keep me focused, I ventured to Picturehouse Central in the morning, with the intention of getting lots done […]
Weeknotes – S06E48 – People are Paying Me Again!
Summary: Panic over as lots of paid work came in, but my own writing suffered as a result (not that I was really working on it anyway…). Tuesday: I won a paid editing project from a new client, and two previous clients also popped up with new work, so I was feeling a bit […]
Weeknotes – S06E47 – New Thoughts
Summary: A very slow work week, though I did have some new thoughts on the novel for the first time in a long while. Monday: I did a submission and also sorted out my work schedule for the upcoming week, after having had quite a bit of time off. Tuesday: I started work […]
Baby Steps
A couple of months ago, I edited a book for a client about being productive and achieving your goals if you struggle with ADHD. One of the items in the book was a list of habit tracking apps – I had a look through and was attracted by Habitica, which has an RPG theme. You […]
Weeknotes – S06E46 – Disrupted Schedule
Summary: Disrupted schedule this week, but I won some new projects and also worked a bit on the novel. Monday: Still in my tiny Airbnb hideaway in Norfolk for one more day! I wrote a review of the book I finished the previous night and collated a few more Darkness notes. Later, I finished […]
Weeknotes – S06E45 – Small Achievements are Still Achievements
Sunday: A bit scattershot this week, though I did finish off all my paid client work and work on the novel just a little bit. And I also did my first paid author event!! Wednesday: I finished off editing on both the elite predators book and the historical thriller, thus clearing my slate completely […]
Weeknotes – S06E44 – Small Steps Still Lead Somewhere
Summary: I kept my promise to myself to work on novel number five at least a little bit on each ‘work’ day this week – I only transferred a few notes from my notebook to an electronic version but it was more than I did last week, or the many weeks before! Monday: I […]