Summary:

This was a good week for utilising my flexible freelance schedule to my advantage – good progress on all fronts and exciting work opportunities booked for the summer!

 

Monday:

We played a fun card game called Animalia, so I wrote my review.

 

Tuesday:

I had a pretty full list of stuff to do today, which I knew would be interrupted by an outing fairly early in the morning. So I got up an hour earlier than usual and edited a section of the meta novel before going out. I really wanted to give up on writing any of my novel when I got back, but I made myself do it next and managed to complete the next scene pretty easily.

Next on the list was a revised version of a memoir I edited for one of my first ever paying clients, back in June 2021, so that was a nice project to come back to, almost two years later.

I did a few submissions to break up the paid work, then started editing another book from one of my most regular clients – the second volume of the prison officer memoir. My last client project of the day was commenting on the next few chapters of the fantasy romance, which rounded off a pretty varied day!

 

Wednesday:

It was my day off but I woke up with thoughts about a couple of client projects, so I made the relevant comments/amendments.

I also started editing the latest podcast episode and wrote a review of an audiobook I finished the day before.

 

Thursday:

I got up early but didn’t manage to settle down to work until 8:30am. I really didn’t feel like working on the novel, but I stuck to my plan and wrote the next scene, which flowed pretty smoothly once I got going.

My client work for the day included starting the last section of the yoga novel, starting edits on a book about social skills development for kids, editing the next section of the meta novel and completing comments on the next two chapters of the fantasy romance.

I also finally got around to completing editing on the latest podcast episode, and did all my prep for the next one.

 

Friday:

The opening hour of my regular ‘work’ days seems to be following a depressing pattern. I don’t want to write my novel and I think about not doing so. I remind myself that it won’t take that long to write a scene and I knuckle down to get on with it. It flows pretty easily and I get my required word count down in less than an hour.

I guess I should be happy that I’m mostly achieving what I want to achieve each day, and that I’m making good progress on the novel overall. But why can’t I start enjoying it a bit more?

Anyway, regardless, I got my Darkness scene done today.

I also edited more of the social skills book and made comments on a few more chapters of the fantasy romance.

During the morning, the wonderful Amie, who edits my novels, came to me with a proposal whereby I would take on an editing job she doesn’t have time for, in exchange for her editing Darkness for free (plus paying me some extra because her project is a lot more involved than mine) – so that was exciting!

 

Saturday:

I finished a book and wrote my review.