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 […]
Month: December 2024
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 […]
Weeknotes – S08E48 – IRL Meetups are the Best!
Summary: Great to hang out with writer friends in real life this week – a real boost! And lots of good paid work done, too. Monday: I had no paid editing work to do this morning, though I did have to write a very long explanation to a client as to why what he […]