After 211 consecutive daily posts I think current circumstances are conspiring to bring the curtain down on "Yesterday and Today". Not only is the house move beginning to be all-consuming, I have little to report in the way of projects and progress. Yes, I can pad posts out with thoughts on semi-related topics, but it … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 30th July →

I don't really know what to say. One meagre paragraph of 'Z' is hardly a stellar return, but that was all I managed yesterday. I do have the excuse that the day was astonishingly stressful as we tried to force through the exchange of contracts on the chain in which our house move sits. Some … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 29th July →

Yesterday was probably my most barren day of the entire year. Apart from plugging some author bio's into New Contexts: 5 and a little more navel-gazing about future projects, there was nothing of note. I'm sure this is in part down to the stress of wanting our house move finalised - which doesn't bode well … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 28th July →

Apart from a little New Contexts: 5 admin, yesterday was really all about navel-gazing i.e. me trying to decide what I should be working on next. Or working on when we've moved - hopefully -three weeks' time. I ended up finding myself wondering whether I was constantly thinking about writing long fiction because that's what … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 27th July →

It was a low-key day yesterday with my planned work being to continue the insertion of my authors' bios into the New Contexts: 5 draft. Still a few more to harvest. In amongst the wait and conversations about house contract exchange (still not resolved!) I did pick up and play with an old idea for … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 26th July →

It's difficult to concentrate when you're sitting around waiting for the call from your solicitor which tells you that you have - finally - exchanged contracts on the house you've been trying to buy for three months. But that just about sums up yesterday. In the pauses between fretting I was able to finish contacting … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 25th July →

During conversations with some of my poets over potential edits for New Contexts: 5 yesterday, in more than one instance I came across the challenge of rhythm versus reason. In a couple of instances the sense of a word is potentially questionable or ambiguous - yet it fits a certain rhythm within the poem. Slightly … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 24th July →

Having pulled together the rough draft of New Contexts: 5 yesterday, the next stage is to check through each piece one at a time to validate formatting and how it looks on the page, and to see whether there are any edits to be made. I will then contact each author in turn to let … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 23rd July →

More work on pulling together the initial New Contexts: 5 draft yesterday - and more horrors in terms of how some writers mis-use word processing software. I came across a new habit where, rather than use Enter/Return to start a new line in a poem, someone has simply filled out the previous line with spaces … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 22nd July →