Summary:   Not much on the writing project front this week, and unlikely to be much progress next week either – but then the big push to the end of the year will begin!   Monday:   I wrote a review of the film we watched the night before.   Tuesday:   I edited another […]

Summary: Bits and pieces completed here and there this week – nothing major but still progress on several fronts.   Monday: I spent some time going through my unassigned stories and finding places to submit them.   Thursday: I did some more submissions, expanded my fantasy novella by a few hundred words for a submission […]

Summary: Going great guns on the final novel edits and really enjoying it, which is a very pleasant surprise. Everything else has pretty much fallen off the to-do list, but that’s okay, because the novel is the most important thing.   Monday: I finished a book and wrote my review. I started a new story […]

Summary: Very light on writing this week – but big plans for both novels from next week until the end of October, so activity should be really ramping up again shortly!   Friday: I wrote reviews of the three books I finished while on holiday.   Saturday: I wrote a review of another book. A […]

Summary: Feeling very happy about the state of my novels this week (at some point soon I may start to consider myself a novelist!), and happy to have cleared the decks of all editing responsibilities before going on holiday.   Monday: Last day of my five-day weekend! I picked a section of Colours that needed […]

Summary: Stellar work from the subconscious crew this week, which left me feeling a lot happier about my novel edits. Even though there’s still a lot of work to do, the path is clearer than it was, and it all seems more possible now.   Monday: I caught up with Day Twenty-Three and Twenty-Four of […]

Summary: Three good writing sessions on my dedicated writing days, so back into a more regular groove for writing. Very happy with progress this week.   Monday: I completed Day Seventeen of AWC’s Mojo Month and listed my intended goals for the day on the UWR online session page. I did some admin and sorting […]

Summary: A bit of a scattershot week – I ‘wrote’ every day but don’t feel like I made any real progress on anything. I did, however, give myself permission to let go of the task list and read a lot, which was lovely, and never a waste of time.   Monday: I reached out to […]

Summary: I wrote every day this week, which I know I decided was a bad idea, after the July Camp Nano experience. But the daily aspect was mostly small, fun exercises, and I had a relaxed approach to it in terms of not putting myself under too much pressure, so it was okay.   Monday: […]

Summary: I feel like I’ve come up with a better structure for my writing week and that I’ve settled back into a better routine again. I should remember the lesson that trying to write every day really doesn’t work for me and actually ends up being very counter-productive.   Monday: My brain had been ticking […]