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Category: Writer’s Log

  • Writer’s Log: Failure to launch

    Or a plan is useless if you aren’t making progress with it. I have reconciled myself to the fact that my book will not be launched this week. I could list a dozen reasons and excuses but the truth boils down to the simple fact that I have not progressed…

  • Writer’s Log: Summer holiday

    Family time ahead, but also writing. It’s fair to say that a lot in the past three weeks hasn’t gone to plan. I did have a plan. The problem is that when one or two things go out of balance, the whole thing tilts towards chaos. My FTC (fixed term…

  • Writer’s Log: A Tale of Two Weeks

    When life forces you to think about the worst-case scenario. Content warning for discussion of cancer. At the end of April, I went for a routine breast screening. It was not the first time that I had undertaken a mammogram as I had been offered one as part of a…

  • Writer’s Log: The game is afoot

    Time to reprioritise and replan. It is hard to believe that I’ve been embroiled with a full-time contract for five weeks. One whole month has gone by and I have five months left. Admittedly, it has been nice not to be very strict about my budget for the first time…

  • Writer’s Log: Learning Lessons

    Trials and tribulations are good teachers. Three weeks into balancing a six-month contract, my own business, and my ambition for shifting to writing overall and I have learned many things. The contract work is going well enough. I’ve done my deep dive into all things past, got myself set up,…

  • Writer’s Log: Balancing

    How to keep my footing on the tightrope. Last Monday I started a six-month fixed term consulting contract with a great charity. I’ll be doing a mix of project and change management supporting their key transformation work. It has been weird conforming back to a typical workday, having to wake…

  • Writer’s Log: The challenge of challenges

    Or, my love-hate relationship with challenges. I have a love-hate relationship with challenging myself. I love challenges because they provide focus on a specific goal. They create a framework in which to pursue a passion, to create something, to improve something. They are brilliant to achieve. I hate challenges because…

  • Writer’s Log: Juggling all kinds of balls

    Sometimes you can’t juggle every ball at the same time Life is an exercise in juggling. We all know that. We have the two very large balls of work and life which sometimes reform suddenly into lots of little balls which are harder to juggle and keep in the air.…

  • Writer’s Log: Where does the time fly?

    Tracking down the minutes and hours After the last log, I decided that I should track my time in detail. Despite my best intentions, I just wasn’t finding the time I wanted to write. It feels almost wrongheaded to say that. I am the master of my own time. I’m…

  • Writer’s Log: Best Laid Plans

    Of aspiring writers…. It’s not that plans went awry so much as they just never really went anywhere. The week following my last log was crazily busy with work. There was a lot of being out of the house, attending a lot of events, and meeting a lot of people.…