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A collection of 32 issues

w14: sunday review

things i intended to do and did: * took Priscilla to the vet for her vaccines; * kept the pea and cucumber seed trays watered & warm; * deleted the two listings I had on Kindle Direct Publishing; * pasted the stories from those docs into draft posts, to hit publish later; * deleted my

w13: sunday review

well, it's been a quiet week here in lake hooksforeverything. things i intended to do and did: * cleared the conservatory tables and started peas and cucumber seeds; * removed spiteful comments from my assignment and uploaded; * kept my phone in greyscale all week (except for that ten minutes I

w11: sunday review

things I intended to do and did: * delete Reddit account and block the domain; * check the contents of the go bags; * some admin for another person that was useful to them and took HOURS but uninteresting to you; * attend second course tutorial (see 'things I did not enjoy'

the week we all moved in together

The Big Spoon and I and our dog and two guinea pigs had been sleeping at the new house since last Wednesday, because I got so tired of being sensible and waiting until it made sense. We were on an air bed, which I thought was fine but apparently didn&

W9: writer's block

Early Friday morning the Big Spoon caught me brainstorming Noor's story again. This isn't the current story, I said, this is the one after the one about the flood, which is next. And he said, very gently, if this is the story you keep coming back

week 5: coughing on Kindle

I was so sure I was going to write four pages a day of fiction all of January. I finished Owl, which was good, which meant I could publish Three Stories Not About Birds, and then I started on the rewrites of Lark's Guests and lost my momentum.

w4 review: aaaaatchoo

Tuesday night after realising I had everything figured out, I cleaned the guinea pigs' hutch. Because Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. They seem happy with it, after the usual nose-bomping their toys back into the Correct places. A few things combined to make Wednesday very

w02: 6th-12th January

Woke too early Monday from a bad dream about shopping crowds. Morning pages and fiction pages went fine, bus and work went well, errands in the city were successful but scattered my brain, and then when I was nearly home and buying milk a woman looked at my boots and

w1: 30 December - 5 January 2020

The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee #10) (library) Monday morning at work it was finally dry and still enough to get some glyphosate on the weeds on the path, and I'm promised that once they've died I shall be allowed to use the

w52: 23-29 December

It's been a useful week, apparently, from the look of my completed items log, but I don't seem to have journalled. I bought two new desks with Christmas money so now the Big Spoon and I each have an office. It's very tempting to