For the record, this is day 118 of consecutive posts..! So what did yesterday - day 117 - deliver? A new podcast episode for a start. "The Big Red Button" is taken from my short story collection, An Irrelevant Piece of Sky, which is published next month. The podcast - WalkingThruFire - can be found … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 27th April →

It is both interesting and understandable how writers fixate on word count when producing longer works of fiction. What else is there by which to measure them? And it's a useful boasting chip! I know I've referenced word count in this diary to demonstrate progress. But the thing I find more meaningful is number of … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 26th April →

Yesterday was the best day for a week in terms of time spent on projects. I had hoped for as much, but when you come out of a flat spot - for whatever reason - you can't be certain how long it will take you to get going. Do you find that too? Oh, and … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 25th April →

After three unproductive days, I finally managed to put a few miles on the clock yesterday. It was a great relief. The one thing I'd planned to do - more drafting of "C" - took place as expected. With the word count now at around 42,600, I'm about two thirds of the way through. I … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 24th April →

Sleep! It's so underrated! The highlight from yesterday was waking up this morning with the bed looking like it hadn't been slept in. I moved so little in the night! I've probably not fully caught up, but I feel fired-up enough to kick on. Indeed, I've already had an idea for another Villanelle, those really … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 23rd April →

What's the best way to describe yesterday given I did no work worthy of the name? Well, in a way, quite good. Not because of the lack of work, but rather the vestige of a return to something like sleep. I started to feel a little better during the afternoon and by evening the hacking … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 22nd April →

Yesterday was pretty terrible; a day of coughing and sneezing bookended by two nights with virtually no sleep. (It was bad enough for me to take a Covid test this morning...which confirmed 'man flu'.) The only thing of any note was spending about and hour typing-up the already drafted follow-on to Crash into play format. … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 21st April →

In the end it was a decent day yesterday, even if it didn't get off to the best of starts. I decided on another Crash read-through, my assumption being that the more I read it, the more of it I'll learn off-pat. But it was a session interrupted by multiple phone calls, and I wasn't … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 20th April →