Storytime with Rachel F Hundred

Category: Writer’s Log

  • Writer’s Log: The lament of the chronically ill

    When your body simply does not co-operate with your plans. Two weeks ago, I reset my plans. The bid work was over and I was back to my transformation work, back to the coaching and training in my own business, and back to slowly getting my writing groove up and…

  • Writer’s Log: How many times can you reset?

    As many times as it takes. My main focus for writing in August has been my Harry Potter story ‘Another Dimension’ and it is with regret that I admit defeat on getting it published by the end of August. The biggest obstacle has been my full time contract which has…

  • Writer’s Log: Delays, delays, delays

    Sometimes life is a series of obstacles. Anyone involved in bid work will know that there is often a mountain of work to do to respond to a procurement tender in a very short window of time. It is exhausting, intense, and stressful. It is the type of work I…

  • 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…