Summary:

Plodding along with all my various client work and projects.

 

Monday:

I carried on providing developmental feedback on a client’s thriller, and also started copy editing a YA fantasy novel, written by the brother of one of the writers I met on retreat last month.

Later, I freeglanced a new blog article for Dave and wrote my GYWO discussion post for the month.

 

Tuesday:

It was another morning of editing both the thriller and the YA fantasy novel (which is an awesome way to split my working time, if you ask me!).

I also had a call with a potential new client about an interesting developmental project that I hope will turn into something good. Though it’s all very vague and nebulous at the moment – I wanted to stop the call at one point and just say, “This is all awesome – but what do you actually want me to do and when – and how and what am I going to get paid???” So, we’ll see…

After lunch, it was Revision Club, which was exactly what I needed to get back on track with my latest novel, A Wizard Calls My Name. I have a strong outline, I know where I’m going with it, I’m excited to get the story out into the world, the writing has been going really well up till now – and yet I still don’t want to actually sit down and do the work! I used the incredible heat as an excuse not to do any yesterday, which left me technically behind on my schedule (which is entirely arbitrary and actually a blocker to me getting anything done), but I didn’t want to work on it today either.

Anyway, I told Sam and Gabrielle on the call that my one objective was to open the document (talk about the smallest of all possible goals) – so I looked at my outline and was convinced there wasn’t enough in the next section to fill a scene. And then I started writing and got down 2200 words in an hour… Which is pretty much always how it goes once I actually start – so why can’t I be more enthusiastic about it? Ah well, another scene done, at least!

I also freeglanced another blog post for Dave.

 

Wednesday:

I read a chunk more of The Ferryman and made notes for my podcast episode on it.

Dave also said a friend of ours would be keen to work with me on developing some comic strips, so I dug out a couple of old cartoons I made years ago and also put together some ideas for another potential series we could do.

 

Thursday:

Back to Shoreditch for the freelance coworking day!

I finished developmental editing on the thriller and sent all the notes back to the author for review and approval. I was a bit worried he might be taken aback by the amount of work my feedback suggests he needs to do… But he was very positive in his response – hurrah!

I also edited a bit more of the YA fantasy novel.

After lunch, I committed to opening the Wizard manuscript and adding at least some new words, as a way to trick myself to getting started. Why is it still so hard after all this time?

And, as usual, once I got started, it flowed pretty well and I got a whole scene of more than 2000 words down in just over an hour…

 

Friday and Saturday:

I read more of The Ferryman and added to my podcast notes.

 

Sunday:

I wrote a review of the latest family book club pick.

I also spent quite a while setting up my new laptop, which is faster, more powerful and much lighter than my old one!

And I read a chunk more of The Ferryman and added to my notes.

 

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