Like all super cool groovy people, I love spreadsheets.
Obsessed with them.
Especially formulas.
If you had a look at my writing spreadsheet, you would not believe I’d wasted so much time setting up such pointless stuff.… Read the rest
Since Fay moved in with me just under two years ago, there have been two things she cannot stand, that she would seek to change at the earliest opportunity.… Read the rest
It’s been a bit of a disappointing day, today.
While I’ve been off work this week, I’ve spent my mornings looking after Sophie while my wife sleeps or rests or washes up and my afternoons writing.… Read the rest
In preparation for Sophie’s birth, we bought a cot. Duh.
For a cot, it was pretty big, because it’s one of those you convert into a toddler bed after a couple of years.… Read the rest
Where did I leave things last night?
Oh yes, our new routine with Sophie had turned her into a night sleeping machine. We were delighted.
Well, like last night, I’ve got to ten-thirty, and she hasn’t woken, and like last night I’m hoping she will sleep until six am.… Read the rest
As previously mentioned, Sophie was always a great sleeper.
For the first nine weeks of her life, it was pretty simple. She’d sleep a lot throughout the day, as long as she was on the chest of either Fay or me, then, when it got to between ten or eleven pm, she would feed, fall asleep at the breast and, after we’d left her to sleep on Fay for around half an hour, we’d put her down in the cot, and she’d sleep through until between five and six am.… Read the rest
I’m writing this post on my phone again.
Which is to say it’s been a horrible few days.
Last time I wrote, three nights ago. I’d just managed to do my thousand words on Bright Future draft one but had failed to do my thousand on Bright draft two.… Read the rest
It’s two minutes to midnight.
Sorry, one minute to midnight.
Basically, nothing has gone to plan.
When I woke this morning I thought in this blog I’d talk about Anthony Horowitz as I would have finished The Word is Murder, and link that to writing quality and the quality threshold when it comes to indie publishing.… Read the rest
Sophie woke us at four this morning.
If you have or have had a child of 71 days old, around ten weeks, you’re probably thinking, so, isn’t that normal?… Read the rest