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Recently I had a massive overhaul of my email system. It’s still not perfect because it takes habit to maintain it a certain way. Below are 14 ways I learnt to save time when it came to emailing. Some of them I use; some I have no need for yet but one day may need to use:

1. Create folders for different type of emails so not only can you prioritize what you read but keep them in one place making it easier to find. For example: personal and business; and under business there could be sub-folders.
2. Try to respond straight after you’ve read the email. If you leave it until later or another day, you’ll most likely have to read it again before responding. That takes time. If it’s something you have to think about; write a draft so you can add to it later with notes on what to add to remind you eg specific data that you don’t have yet. At least then half of it is done already.
3. Schedule chunks of time to check emails so you’re not wasting your time checking all the time. Half a dozen times or less is preferable. It could be during a break. That way, you’re not likely to be using it for a long period of time.
4. If you’re going to get a massive amount of emails from people for a contest for example ask senders to use a specific word, a keyword to do with the contest that distinguishes it from other contests you may have and use your email system to send all emails with that word into a folder you’ve created for just those emails. It saves having to sort them out later or dragging or moving emails to the folder yourself.
5. Template responses are good for certain things especially for instructions or information – details you find you keep sending to people who keep asking the same questions. Have a text template of the answer written beforehand. Write the email personalizing it to the sender; and then cut and paste the answer to it. This could be details of your next book signing or an outline of your book.
6. Create and save a signature that has your full name, contact details as default so it shows up every time you send an email without you having to worry if the receiver has your details.
7. If you have many email addresses, think about forwarding all your email accounts to one place if it helps. Most email programs have this feature where it’s possible to receive all emails from many accounts at a single email account and possible to email from any of the accounts at that single email account.
8. Use one email address just for really important things such as bank accounts and any activity that requires you paying money over; a different email address that gets populated all over internet eg comments on other blogs; one for subscription or information that you’re interested in and one just for close friends and family. Prioritize what you check and when you check it. If you’re writing or working, family and friends don’t expect to hear from you during that time and if it was urgent, they’d call you so you may only need to check once a day.
9. Check the spam folder every day just in case something important lost its way. It’ll save the sender or you asking for it and the sender to re-send it.
10. Set up your mobile to say you’re responding to emails from your mobile if you are emailing by phone. People don’t expect long emails when you’re out and about so won’t be upset if your response is a few words long.
11. Standardize the way you set out your emails to those you work with. For instance, if you regularly have to send an email about a book. Standardize it so that you have a template you could copy and paste and fill the gaps. This works if you’re sending similar information on books to the same editor, publisher etc so that the editor or publishers’ names and details won’t change much because you’ve sent that email so many times already. A previous email will already have their name, the only difference is the book details. That could be written out separately unless it’s about the same author and same book. Checking your sent folder for previous emails and once you find it, drag it to the template folder for the next week when you have to chase again. This is great for chasing.
12. Have information and instructions on your website that you could link to when you get emails requesting information. Better still, make that information easy to find on your website in the first place so people don’t bother you in the first instance. On agent Janet Reid’s blog you see a list of answers to potential questions people may have on her side bar – that saves her a lot of time responding to people; and on author Robert Sawyer’s website he has a letter to beginning writers under the ‘how to write’ link that goes to a page that answers most of the questions writers tend to email him about. I’ve read it; and it’s amazing how much he covers. It’s not as easy to find as Janet Reid’s but when he gets emails from aspiring writers, he probably send them a link to that page, saving him a lot of time because it covers almost everything.
13. If you find yourself in a situation when you have to send out the same information to lots of people in a short space of time eg when you need to tell people about your book launch and you have names and email address, you could you use mail merge on Outlook. It’s similar to the mail merge function for MS Word (which is usually for letters) but designed to use for emails. There’s a preview option so you can check it before you send it out. I’d only recommend it if you are limited by time and there’s over 30 people to send to.
14. Similar to 13, send the email to yourself, cc yourself and bcc everyone else on the list so that the person who receives cannot see the other email addresses you’ve sent to. I have friends who do this because it saves time. Personally, I find it impersonal and would not use it. To save more time, put the email addresses into a category eg family, friends, editors etc so they’re all grouped together especially if you’re having to add over 50 email addresses. If you do this often and sending to 1000s of people it is worth investing in services by companies such as www.aweber.com.

As I said I didn’t do all that’s on here; I’ve added more to this list for those who have to email extensively. Whichever you do, because of its simplicity and ease, emails should not replace anything that has to said urgently. If it’s urgent pick up the phone.

How can you improve your email system and save some time? If you have any further suggestions, I’d be happy to hear from you. In the meantime, think about what you could do with that extra time.

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“To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives; it is the only way we can leave the future open.” Lillian Smith – Writer

CURRENT STATUS: Reminder, Motivator and Daily Review Meeting (Read on if you want to join me)

What l learnt today:

• 3 possible ways your unsold book can go even once you get an agent.
• Reminded why I want to write in the first place. A sense of freedom of expression.
• Read the agent guidelines or you’ll just upset them and you don’t want to be doing that at any time.
• How social media can go a bit crazy. How Gregory Levey suddenly got 700,000 Facebook fans (via Janet Reid’s blog).
• We writers can no longer be tortured souls shrouded by mystery but peppy performers.
• Sometimes it’s not the book but the market. It’s what sells. Agent Rachelle Gardner asks do you write from the heart or try for a balance?

What I have done today:

• Reading ‘Get Known Before the Book Deal’ by Christina Katz.
• Invited people to guest blog via Nathan Bransford’s forum.

WORD COUNT: 120,000 in total; Monday 28 June 1000 words.

Film-making is something I have more experience of or I should say low budget film-making. But I thought about this the other day and compared how writing and film-making seemed alike in many ways for me. Starting out as a novice novelist is like starting out as a budding film-maker. Let’s say you want to be a director, if you have no experience, the way to do it is usually to make a low budget film to showcase your directing talent.

Not only wannabe directors and screenwriters but also most cast and crew at the beginning of their career would most likely be providing their services for free hoping that they’d be provided with food and reimbursement of travel expenses. Everyone is there to make a film and in turn build on their skills, getting them the experience, the film credit and a show-reel to show off their talents.

When you’re starting out, sometimes it’s not unusual for film-makers to direct, write and produce their short films. I know many who have taught themselves to design their own websites, work with sound tracks, edit on Final Cut and do post-production as well.

Because when someone starts out from scratch, they just can’t afford to pay for these services where you could be paying an editor hundreds of pounds an hour. And to attract people who want to work on a film with you, unless they’re your friend or a family member, you have to at least show that you have some experience, no matter how meagre, behind you.

This is why film-makers learn to be a bit of everything – a Jack-of-all-trades and in many ways this is what is expected of a director. He or she should know how all the other cogs in the wheel work. The writer’s first novel is like the film-maker’s first short film. Usually they have to do everything themselves.

For my first short film, I wrote the screenplay, produced and directed it. I enjoyed the writing, naturally. The producing and organization was easy – I learnt how to organise doing office work – but the directing, I wasn’t too good at. I was lucky enough to get help from David Crossman, a director, who allowed me to watch how he directed actors and mark off the shots on a script to ensure that the whole scene was covered. When people are passionate about what they do, they love talking about it and I was lucky to meet a lot of passionate people who wanted to share their expertise and knowledge.

The actual shooting of my first film was like free writing, just typing and not stopping to worry about typos and having the perfect word or sentence. Free writing is a bit like sweeping that colour to create the mood of a painting at the beginning and sketching in the outline of the objects and subjects. Because I was inexperienced, I shot every scene in close up (face and eyes), medium shot (face to chest) and long shot (body and landscape) from beginning to end so I captured all angles and all possible shots. An experienced director would know which moments to get the close up so we’d see the reaction and which moments for the middle shot and the long shot. So instead of 9 hours of footage to edit, an experienced director would only have an hour or so of footage.

This is the same for an inexperienced novelist, free writing is like shooting all angles, puffing it up. That’s why my novel is at 119,000 words and counting. I know I will cut at least one third of it. The aim is capture everything and do the major editing in post production. The difference between writing and film-making is, if you didn’t capture the footage then and there at the location with the actors, it’ll be harder to capture it again. A common thing post production people hate hearing from directors, producers and even actors is ‘we’ll deal with it in post’ because with compositors and animators, people think they’re miracle workers able to add trees and tigers where there were none before. I think for writers, it is possible to add new footage and get rid of footage that doesn’t work. The hard part is getting rid of great scenes that don’t work with the story. Directors loathe to get rid of a beautiful scene or shot that probably took all day to shoot and a lot of manpower but somehow it doesn’t work with the rest of the story. Editing is similar for both professions. It’s cut, cut and cut some more.

Aspiring film-makers or wannabe directors are there from beginning to end of the project. Low budget film-makers have to do everything and be everyone; a whole corporation of one when they’re starting out. They’re the screenwriter, casting director, producer, costume artist, caterer, cameraman, director of photography, sound person (if you’re lucky you can rope a family member in to hold the boom), editor, marketer, web designer, sales person and distributor. It is only once they’re known or being paid to make a film that they can hire the crew and cast to help them.

This is what a writer, author or novelist has to do when they start out. There is a process from beginning to end and as they progress, they have to put many different hats on. They are writer, editor, marketeer, sales person, admin assistant, accountant, researcher, internet expert, speaker, performer etc and sometimes some roles do not mix well and you must keep them separate. The roles are different for writer and film-maker but you get what I’m saying. It is only when you’re paid that you get the professional help from outside. But you have to be all the roles above before you have something to show the professionals and that’s not always easy. As a writer, I feel you have to be always aware of which hat you have on to create the right balance.

Before you get the support from agent, editor, publisher and attract people who take your work seriously you have to help yourself. You’ve got to invest time, effort and money into actually writing, writing workshops, conferences, business cards, the Internet etc. It is like that for every artist.

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“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” Oprah Winfrey – Television Host, Producer and Philanthropist

CURRENT STATUS: (Reminder, Motivator and Daily Review Meeting (Read on if you want to join me)

What l learnt today:

• Online presence means online reputation – what to reveal and not to reveal about yourself. From www.sfwa.org I was advised to install Google Webmaster tools. What people look for in a blog or writer’s website, why you need one and how to go about building one, and what to have on the website in terms of content.
• I did join another writers’ forum before joining Nathan Bransford’s but it had about 3 posts. I learnt that you can only tell once you’ve joined and it helps if the forum is attached to a blog like Nathan’s which is very popular and full of people participating via comments.
• Book trailers seem to be more common than I thought even for writers who are published many times over. I thought it was just the realm of the unpublished to get attention.
• Realized I want to have a personal Facebook account for friends and family and another just for writing.
• Realized I may have to rethink website design as I’ve read it should be themed toward the genre I’m writing. I’m working on 2 novels that are totally different. Mmh, me thinks me need to think about this.
• Write posts and leave them for 24 hours before publishing by using the rule of 24.
• To subscribe to your own RSS feed so that you can see what other readers see either on the computer or mobile.

What I have done today:

• I joined Nathan Bransford’s forum – it’s an amazing forum with people who are happy to participate and give good advice.
• Set up Google Webtools.
• Contacted an author who was requesting for blogs to review his book or set up an interview about writing in general with him saying I’d be happy to. I can only try.
• Created a writer’s Facebook account.
• Added email address on the front page of the blog.

WORD COUNT: 119,000 in total; 26 June – weekend – a rest, read and research day.

Things for me to do: (This is a list for me as a reminder  – and for any other budding writers who happen to stumble here and are just a step behind me. I have the same notes from the post before if I’ve not done it yet and cross things off once I’ve done it and next day it disappears – and the red bits are stuff I’ve added in this post but will be black tomorrow. I’ll stop before I confuse you more):

What I plan to do that can be done:

• Add to my blog. Add an ‘about me’ page; a ‘supporters’ page; a ‘guest bloggers’ page inviting guest bloggers to write on my blog or a Q&A session; a guest blogger request on the front page of the blog; a links page; a page about the two books I’m finalizing and a writing samples page. Must rethink. Add separate pages to blog or a new theme for a main website.
• Contact some authors direct for an interview? Contact another.
• Participate in writing forums and other blogs.(and Twitter)
  
• Create a marketing plan.
• Add email address to front page

When someone wants to pursue a profession that is perceived as financially unstable and the possibility of success is uncertain, sometimes what makes all the difference between someone who persists and someone who gives up half way is the support system around them.

So you want to a painter, a musician, an actor, a writer – not only do you have to work hard at what you want but you also have to  constantly juggle with doing moderately well at the bit jobs that pay the bills and keep the bailiffs at bay while you’re trying to find the energy and time to do what you really want to do.

As an actress for 6 years now, I know how it feels to pursue something that no one in your family or friends understood. When I started out I knew no one who was actually doing it – acting that is or anyone for that matter who worked in the film industry. For the first few years my parents thought I was having a nervous breakdown until they saw me acting on TV. Then it seemed to click in their minds. It explained the reason why I wasn’t working full-time 9-5 all the time like everyone else. Still they didn’t know what was required and what was involved just to get there. And when I did get into the industry and had actor and director friends who understood my passion at the time, they found it strange that I had started this at the age of 28.

Now I’m going down a new path and again, I feel the same way except now I’m 36. I’m not married; I have no children and keeping a relationship seems as difficult as walking on a tightrope. And it’s not out of choice. I’ve had relationships but I’d rather be alone than be in a marriage for the sake of being in a marriage. That goes for children as well. I love them but I’d rather not have them for the sake of having them. It’s not that I avoid it; I’ve just never had the opportunity; no, that’s wrong; I’ve not found the one for me. At 28, changing direction in life and living like you were a student again was frowned upon for me but at 36 and starting all over again is even worse having to deal with the uncertainty again when at this age in people’s minds you should really know what you’re doing.

I’m not complaining; writing is what I want to do.

But I couldn’t do this without the support of my family, my mother especially. The rest of my family are really great too. I couldn’t ask for more. And in some ways to get published and get that ‘click’ again from those who have supported me would mean so much – as saying that their support was not in vain and that I’m not crazy.

Another supporter from the very beginning is Blackheath Halls (see pic above). I’ve mentioned them before but not in this new blog site. They deserve a whole page to themselves but for now, until I figure out to add an extra page to this blog, it will be a blog post mention. Blackheath Halls is a short walk away from me. One afternoon I walked in and asked to see the manager. When I met LJ, the manager there, I asked if I could use their space to write and she said yes straight away and she only knew my name and my aim to finish two novels I had started in Sri Lanka. Thanks LJ. I’m glad I reached out.

As I reached out again yesterday to some people on Twitter, it made me realize that as a writer, my office environment consists of me in a room and what I would really like is be part of a community of writers, agents, editors and publishers – people who understand what I’m going through. I don’t find it scary to talk to strangers face to face; I’m happy to go to a party on my own and speak to whoever is there. But talking to strangers via the Internet is totally new to me and it will take some time to get used to.

I’m not sure if I’m doing it right. Wish me luck. Please say hello if you’re a writer, agent, editor, publisher, blogger, internet marketer who wants a friend. My email is jessie@jessiemac.com or you can contact me via comments if you prefer. I’d like to connect with like-minded people who are into learning, exploring and supporting. Everyone needs supporters.

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“Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won’t take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother.” Barbara Johnson – Writer

CURRENT STATUS:

What I have done today:

• I contacted a handful of strangers who were following me and I was following on Twitter either via a direct message or a tweet. It was unnerving, worse than talking to a stranger on the street. Usually there’s a reason for talking; can the reason be just because we’re interested in writing and books? I reached out and said hello. It was scary but I’m glad I did it. My bit of excitement for the day. What’s the worse that could happen? They could think I’m crazy and unfollow me. That’s okay; I can only try.
• Going through over 300 blog posts via Google Reader (310 left) and making comments if the post made me think or taught me something. I think I did this a lot today. If I was the writer and someone read my post and found it interesting, I’d like to hear it. That’s why I’m commenting. People should be told when they’re appreciated. I can’t believe I have so many posts to read still.
• I responded to my first 2 comments. For a newby, it’s pretty exciting even though one was from a website full of good-looking scantily-clad women in bikinis and the other one a blogging site. I was excited so answered both comments.
• Created folders in Google Reader so I can prioritize what I’m reading, which helped a lot.

WORD COUNT: 119,000 in total; 25 June wrote 500 words – an Inkygirl badge for me.

THINGS FOR ME TO DO, OTHER THAN WRITE (I have the same notes from the post before if I’ve not done it yet and cross things off once I’ve done it as it’s a reminder to include it in the marketing plan and the red bits are stuff I’ve added in this post):

Straight away I can see things I can do in the next few days that is not totally impossible; I can only try:

• Add to my blog. I don’t have any books out but I could add an ‘about me’ page; a ‘supporters’ page; a ‘guest bloggers’ page inviting guest bloggers to write on my blog or a Q&A session; a guest blogger request on the front page of the blog; a links page and a page about the two books I’m finalizing.
• Contact some authors direct for an interview?
• Participate in writing forums and other blogs.(and Twitter)
  
• Create a marketing plan.
• Add email address to front page

Is there such a thing as information overload? If there is, I have it. After a week of Twitter and going through the link maze to find so many other writers out there, published and non-published, inspiring other writers such as myself and finding agents, editors and publishers giving great advice through the websites, adding all the links I’ve found in the last two weeks would take half the day at least, which I intend to do at some point.

With all the available advice via the Internet I find myself overwhelmed by all the information. Not only am I learning about how to write a novel; how the publishing industry works but also how to write blog posts; how to keep in touch with what’s going on and all about internet marketing.

It’s come to the point that I’m not blogging as freely because I see so much of the same information out there already on the same subjects. And I wonder what can I add to the so many posts out there already? I realized as I’m just starting out and new to this, I don’t have the expertise on many of the topics so what can I write about that anyone would want to read? Then I think that blogging is not what I’m trying to do here. I’m trying to write novels and get them published. It sounds simple enough so why am I so confused, overloaded and overwhelmed?

Do everyone feel this overwhelmed? So when you’re bombarded with so much information, you have to ask yourself what is it that you’re really trying to do? The bottom line. For me I want to write novels and get them published. So I’ve decided to write my blog as I’m learning, asking lots of questions and finding the answers to them; creating an action plan and delivering the results – I am a corporation of one after all – and documenting what I’m doing. In the end I can only write what I know and what I’m learning. The writing part, I need to just keep on writing but the get books published part, it seems that requires me to build myself a writer’s platform.

What is a platform?

Platform is everything that you bring to the table. A Platform, of course, is similar to branding but it is a step beyond. A Platform is being developed and accomplished in many areas. It is similar to the spokes in a wheel, each one is separate yet each one is important to the whole. The more powerful the spokes, the more powerful the wheel.

So if we think of a Platform as the entire wheel, we have many spokes in the wheel that make a platform possible. (Source: Annie Jennings PR)

Annie Jennings’s Platform Check List:

1. Are you the author or co-author of books and articles? The more books and the more articles the better. E-books count also and are relatively easy to create.
2. Have you developed any products such as audiocassette or CD series, video series, internet courses, any innovative products that you have developed to help your industry?
3. Are your books and articles appearing in other countries, translated to different languages?
4. Do you have speaking engagements? Did you address large audience or companies with names people would recognize? Have you done an impressive number of speaking engagements? Have you spoken outside of the country? Were you a keynote presenter?
5. Did you contribute your industry or achieve or breakthroughs? Have you received awards or recognition. Did you develop new business processes that enhanced your industry?
6. Have you achieved Expert Status in the media, including TV, radio and print? Have you appeared on national TV, had article written about you. Have you received media coverage in any other country? A few major media placements builds up your BIO fast!
7. Have you toured the country promoting your book? How many cities did you go through, how many interviews did you do, where did you speak, where did you hold book signings, did you sell an impressive amount of books?
8. Have you hosted or co-hosted a radio show, or have been a regular guest? Do you have your own show, internet shows are easy ways to get started!
9. Do you have endorsements or testimonials from industry leaders?
10. Did your book make it to any best sellers lists? Did it receive any awards?

I found this post on ‘How to Build your Writing Platform‘ by Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen outlining 1o ways to build your writing platform according to Frishman and Spizman’s Author 101 Bestselling Book Proposals: The Insider’s Guide to Selling Your Work’:

1. Create your own website with blogs, forums, newsletters, and photos.
2. Blog or write for an established website.
3. Figure out what your specialty or niche is, then build your writing platform around that.
4. Give talks about your specialty in schools, churches, libraries, local groups, etc.
5. Teach classes or offer workshops.
6. Offer products or services related to your niche.
7. Participate in online communities and forums, focusing on building your writing platform.
8. Sell or donate articles or bits of book chapters to magazines, newspapers, or newsletters.
9. Conduct focus groups or use surveys to convince publishers that your idea has merit and will sell. This will build your writing platform by providing you with tangible support.
10. Ask an organization to commit to buying a hundred or so copies of your published book – and include their letter of commitment with your book proposal.

Another 5 ways from Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen:

1. Make it easy to buy your book on your website or blog.
2. Become an expert.
3. Write articles for popular blogs.
4. Start an online group.
5. Do a virtual book tour.

It’s amazing how much of that I’ve not done. I have a blog. That’s it. The others seem impossible because I’m still at the writing phase. I guess I can only do what I can do. I’m going to come back to this list. Really, I need to plan these things. There is just so much there that I need to break this down into chunks. First though, I need to organize a bit better, perhaps with an Excel spreadsheet because I’m losing track of things, people, posts etc. With Twitter and Google RSS reader, it’s so hard to keep track of where I heard about that book or who recommended this. In ‘Author Platform: What Are You Waiting For?‘ Joel Friedlander suggests what a writer needs is a marketing strategy so that the platform is developed slowly and gradually because no one can do it all at once and it has to fit in with your primary activity – writing the book.

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Here are the links on this page again and a few others:

10 Tips to Creating a Powerful Platform by Annie Jennings

5 Tips For Building an Online Platform for Writers by Lauri Pawlik-Kienlen

Author Platform: What Are You Waiting For? by Joel Friedlander

The Dreaded Author Platform by Rachelle Gardner

Creating a Writer’s Platform by Dorinda Ohnstad

Developing a Platform for Nonfiction Writers by Robert Rummel-Hudson

Audience Development: Critical to Every Writer’s Future by Jane Friedman

Build an Author Platform Before Publishing by Suzanne Pitner

It’s Not the Size of Your Platform, It’s the Magic in it by Jonathan Fields

Author Platform and the Debut of your Book by Lindsey Edwards

Why Writers Should Have a Platform Interview with Christina Katz

Building an Organic Web Presence by Carol White

Why All Authors Need a Platform Excerpted from Get Known Before the Book Deal by Christina Katzby

7 Methods to Build an Audience by Q B Wells

Here’s a video of Chris Brogan‘s take on building presence on the Internet via BubbleCow.

“When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life.” Christopher Morley – Novelist and Poet

CURRENT STATUS:

What I have done from the advice I’m finding throughout the Internet. I’ve managed to do the following things;

• Set up Google RSS reader and subscribe to blogs written by other writers, agents, editors, bloggers and internet marketing people. Every day there is over 300 posts to read. I found out today that there’s a panic button where it marks every post as read if you ‘panic’ at the amount of reading ahead of you. I hope I will never have to use that button.
• Set up Twitter and twittering throughout the day. It’s hard to keep up with other posts sometimes and I’m finding that I have to email myself the link so I can read it properly later. I’m keeping up with the Twitter comments and coming back and finding that there have been over 100 tweets since I checked, which can be unnerving.
• Create a blog that enables RSS feed and Twitter updates.
• Using Firefox’s Bookmarks and creating folders so I can file important blogs or people I’d like to read more about later.
• I bought the book that was recommended by an agent, I’ve forgotten her name: ‘Get Known Before the Book Deal’ by Christina Katz and it should be with me in the next few days. Through a Twitter post, I found a link to a writer expressing the same confusion I’m experiencing now and I’m hoping this book will clear the muddled-up ideas in my head a bit, if not a lot. Here’s a post by Christina Katz on platform building. From what she’s saying, I need to wait until starting some of the activities above whilst I’m still learning and figuring my way around the publishing labyrinth.
• Set up Google Alert using words ‘writing’, ‘writer’ etc.

WORD COUNT: 118,500 in total; today 500 – I get the Inkygirl ’500 words a day challenge’ badge.

THINGS FOR ME TO DO, OTHER THAN WRITE:

Straight away I can see things I can do in the next few days that is not totally impossible; I can try: