Summary:

I’m in the unprecedented situation of having paid editing work booked in till the end of July (I’m usually only working on a fortnightly cycle of panic), which is nice! Still making progress on the novel and trying not to let podcast stuff take over everything else.

 

Monday:

It was back to editing the action/adventure novel today!

Then, after lunch, I revised another scene of my fifth novel, A Darkness Divided, and also wrote a first draft of my TL;DR Press 1000-word competition entry, which ended up being a lot of fun. I posted it to the TL;DR Slack for feedback.

I did some more of the book marketing course I started last week and also listened to more of Illuminae and wrote notes for an upcoming Reviews Revisited podcast episode.

Later, I did some submissions.

 

Tuesday:

I wrote quite a few more notes for the Illuminae podcast episode, though it’s clear it’s not going to be nearly as long as The Secret History one, which is probably a good thing!

Then it was back to editing the action/adventure novel, which I finished today and sent back to the author for review and approval.

I planned to have the rest of the week off from paid editing work, but am looking forward to starting some new projects on Monday.

Revision Club was great, as ever. I revised three more Darkness scenes, did a few more submissions and wrote a ton more notes on Illuminae for the podcast.

Later, I actually finished listening to Illuminae and making my notes from the revisit.

 

Wednesday:

I had a call with a prospective client for a really interesting project – correcting and editing text and dialogue for a huge text-based fantasy RPG – which I won!

 

Thursday:

I wrote a review of Spellbook, a board game Dave and I played in Thirsty Meeples in Oxford the day before.

I also spent quite a bit of time arranging my work schedule for the next couple of months because I suddenly have quite a few new big projects coming through. It looks like I’ve got enough work booked in to last me to the end of July which is awesome! But I’m a bit worried about fitting everything in and potentially getting overwhelmed.

Later, I completed my script for the Illuminae episode of the Reviews Revisited podcast series.

 

Friday:

I did a sample edit for a potential client.

I revised and submitted my TL;DR 1kwhc entry, which was fun.

I also started reading Piranesi for my solo podcast series and wrote a ton of notes.

Thanks to Love Book Tours, Stanley’s book got a lot of lovely reviews on Instagram this week, which was wonderful. All he’s ever wanted is to spread joy and confidence among humans – so hearing that the book has helped people with their mental health and self-worth was amazing.

 

Saturday:

The long and complicated instructions for my latest paid editing project came through – making all the text for a text-based choose your own adventure game sound natural and suitable for the fantasy theme – and it was a lot!

I chatted with the client team about it and took a first stab at the video transcripts, just to check I was using the right approach. It’s going to be a *lot* of work over the next few weeks, but I’m excited!

I also posted the next Reviews Revisited podcast episode and put the transcript on my blog.

 

Sunday:

I had the whole day ahead of me to work on whatever I wanted, which was awesome!

I started out by doing some prep for the Editors Learn Together Unconference, which starts tomorrow.

Then I helped Bear with a post about our lovely trip to Oxford last week.

I did some Darkness edits, read and made notes on more of Piranesi and even voluntarily did some more work on the huge RPG client editing project.

I also had a long chat with an aspiring writer friend about my writing and project management processes, which was fun.

Later, I finished listening to the audiobook of the latest Mercedes Lackey book – Valdemar – and wrote my review.