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Every Second Counts
Monday 29th April 2024, 4094 words added to WIP, 1 new rejection, 0 new agent queries, 3 competition entries, listening to Margaret Atwood’s On Writers and Writing, reading The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker for book club, Where the World Turns Wild by Nicola Penfold for children’s book club and reviewing The House at…
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Hurdles and Hoops
Thursday 8th February 2024, planning notes for a new novel, 0 new rejections, 0 new submissions, 1 competition entered, still reading The Islands of Abandonment and listening to A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders, finished reading Stoner by John Williams, The Storied life of A J Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (loved)…
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Feeling wobbly and filling up my bottom drawer…
Tuesday 7th March 2023, WIP 40,066 words, 17 new rejections (I’ll explain later), 3 new submissions, reading Netherland by Joseph O’Neill (I find books without chapters frustrating), King of Shadows by Susan Cooper, and listening to Still Life by Sarah Winman, 1 new book purchase (for research), two coffees, one tea, and four garibaldis (one…
Kate