Summary: Back to reality after being on retreat – always a difficult transition. But softened by having interesting paid work to do and being enthusiastic about embarking on the first draft of my new novel.   Monday: It was back to reality today, after a glorious week away on retreat. I had plenty of paid […]

Summary: My second retreat was also great – and I finished outlining my new novel! I also lined up some great new paid editing projects to start on my return to real life, which was great.   Monday: Today was a travelling day – taxi from Tall Trees to Castle Cary, train back to Paddington, […]

Summary: A great week of clearing the decks and then experiencing a fantastic writing retreat and meeting lots of lovely new people.   Monday: I was on countdown to going away, so I concentrated on getting as much paid editing work done as possible, alternating between Amie’s client novel, and the copy editing stage of […]

Summary: It feels like I’m winding down before going away, even though I don’t leave until the end of the coming week! Still, a fair amount done on various fronts.   Tuesday: I did more copy editing on Carla’s novel and Amie’s client novel. After lunch, I used the Revision Club focus session to edit […]

Summary: Bit of a switch-around on the paid editing schedule but it all worked out – on the project front, mostly gave myself permission not to be productive, but still got some stuff done.   Monday: I split my morning between editing Carla’s novel and reviewing the first 10k words of a historical romance for […]

Summary: Back to work but in a gentle, enjoyable way. Also progress on lots of podcast projects, but now I’m going to take a bit of a break from that for a while.   Monday: After my glorious week off (in which I was admittedly ill and also actually did a ton of non-paid-work stuff), […]

Summary: An impromptu week off work due to Covid led to a lovely, restful time, mostly reading and playing games.   Monday: Every plan I had for this week was disrupted this morning by the discovery that I have Covid… So I cancelled all my outings and settled down to get some work done – […]

Summary: I put several very old creative projects back on my list this week, finished my biggest paid editing project to date, and felt pleasingly motivated about all my current writing/editing.   Monday: In the morning, I chugged along a bit more with editing the RPG game text I’ve been working on for many weeks […]

Summary: It feels weird not to be working on a novel at the moment, but I did make progress in other areas, both paid and unpaid.   Monday: I split the morning between paid editing projects – the cybersecurity book and the RPG text. In the afternoon, I had grand plans to continue with the […]

Summary: This week was rather bitty and I don’t feel like I made a lot of progress, but there was at least some and that’s okay.   Tuesday: I spent the morning re-establishing my usual routine by working on paid editing projects – the second half of the volunteering book, the second half of the […]