Summary: Well, that was an unexpected seven-day writing week! I did a lot of very enjoyable paid editing, and made at least some progress on my own writing projects, so I’m declaring a victory!   Monday: I decided it would be best to stay at home today, so I settled on the sofa (with Stanley […]

Summary: My writing week didn’t go entirely according to plan, but all progress is good progress! And sometimes things get in the way, and it’s okay.   Monday: Today was the start of my ‘new routine’! I had decided that, on returning from the writing retreat, I would establish a new routine of paid work […]

Summary: The second half of the retreat was just as good as the first half, though I was glad to get home and set all my plans for the coming week of combining paid editing with personal projects again.   Monday: I woke up way too early, with the subconscious crew clamouring for me to […]

Summary: Massive amounts achieved this week – hurrah for writing retreats! I made real progress on both novels, as well as working on a short story, and reading some useful books about outlining. Amazing what a country house in Devon can do for productivity!   Monday: I put together an ambitious list of things to […]

Summary: My tentative plan of doing less paid work, so I had more time to spend on my own writing didn’t work at all! (I think all my extra time was actually spent playing Grow: Song of the Evertree…) But I did complete two big paid projects during the week.   Monday: I didn’t go […]

Summary: I started to build my enthusiasm back up for working on my novels, but didn’t do much in the way of actual work. Paid editing was good, though, with lots of progress on chunky projects.   Monday: I went back and forth on the idea a bit, but eventually decided to spend the day […]

Summary: A fairly relaxed time of it this week, with lots of interesting paid projects, and a bit of a break from my own writing.   Monday: An Hour of Writes prompt popped up in my inbox the other day and I decided to submit something on a whim, so today I started out by […]

Summary: A bit hit and miss this week – I wasn’t feeling particularly motivated, so I shunted quite a bit of work into next week, but managed to focus on finishing my latest short story.   Tuesday: A couple of new, short assignments came through from previous clients overnight, so I did those first. Then […]

Summary: The focus was much more on paid work than personal projects this week, but I did get some of my own writing done as well.   Monday: I didn’t get much sleep the night before, and the case numbers were shooting up again, so I decided against going to the cafe today. I started […]

Summary: I’ve logged a ‘writing day’ on my tracker every day for the last two weeks, which is very unusual for me! Normally, if I try and write every day, I burn out after about ten days and have to take a couple of weeks off! A day counts as a ‘writing day’ if I […]