Summary: Fantastic week, mostly due to going on retreat! I finished the first draft of my fifth novel and secured enough work from the other writers on the retreat to fill up the rest of the summer! Monday: I wrote the next Darkness scene first thing. I hadn’t been looking forward to it, because […]
Month: June 2023
Slogging Along
I’m really not sure what’s going on with my current novel. I call it ‘novel number five’, but that’s not entirely accurate, because number four never got past 40k words, so it can’t really be called a novel, but hey…. Anyway, I first dreamed up (literally!) the idea for number five in April […]
Weeknotes – S07E24 – Preparing for Retreat
Summary: I cleared the decks of all paid client work, and am looking forward to not pitching again until July. I also managed to make progress on the novel, setting myself up to be able to complete it on retreat by the end of June. Monday: I was going to give myself more time […]
Weeknotes – S07E23 – Bookend Productivity
Summary: Good start and end to the week, but understandably disrupted in the middle – all good, though, with lots of great stuff planned for next week. Monday: I got up late and faffed around for quite a while, mostly pitching for more paid editing work, as I had nothing on the docket for […]
Weeknotes – S07E22 – A Bit Precarious
Summary: I’m definitely flagging on the novel-writing front, and all my paid editing projects ended on Friday (with none booked in for next week yet), so everything is feeling a bit precarious at the moment. But winning a prize was nice! Monday: I was up and at my desk by 8:30am. I wrote the […]