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July 28, 2023
Yesterday & Today: 29th July
I don’t really know what to say. One meagre paragraph of ‘Z’ is hardly a stellar return, but that was all I managed yesterday. I do have the excuse that the day was astonishingly stressful as we tried to force through the exchange of contracts on the chain in which our house move sits. Some … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 29th July →
Yesterday & Today: 28th July
Yesterday was probably my most barren day of the entire year. Apart from plugging some author bio’s into New Contexts: 5 and a little more navel-gazing about future projects, there was nothing of note. I’m sure this is in part down to the stress of wanting our house move finalised – which doesn’t bode well … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 28th July →
July 27, 2023
Yesterday & Today: 27th July
Apart from a little New Contexts: 5 admin, yesterday was really all about navel-gazing i.e. me trying to decide what I should be working on next. Or working on when we’ve moved – hopefully -three weeks’ time. I ended up finding myself wondering whether I was constantly thinking about writing long fiction because that’s what … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 27th July →
July 25, 2023
Yesterday & Today: 26th July
It was a low-key day yesterday with my planned work being to continue the insertion of my authors’ bios into the New Contexts: 5 draft. Still a few more to harvest. In amongst the wait and conversations about house contract exchange (still not resolved!) I did pick up and play with an old idea for … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 26th July →
Yesterday & Today: 25th July
It’s difficult to concentrate when you’re sitting around waiting for the call from your solicitor which tells you that you have – finally – exchanged contracts on the house you’ve been trying to buy for three months. But that just about sums up yesterday. In the pauses between fretting I was able to finish contacting … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 25th July →
July 24, 2023
Yesterday & Today: 24th July
During conversations with some of my poets over potential edits for New Contexts: 5 yesterday, in more than one instance I came across the challenge of rhythm versus reason. In a couple of instances the sense of a word is potentially questionable or ambiguous – yet it fits a certain rhythm within the poem. Slightly … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 24th July →
July 23, 2023
Yesterday & Today: 23rd July
Having pulled together the rough draft of New Contexts: 5 yesterday, the next stage is to check through each piece one at a time to validate formatting and how it looks on the page, and to see whether there are any edits to be made. I will then contact each author in turn to let … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 23rd July →
July 22, 2023
Yesterday & Today: 22nd July
More work on pulling together the initial New Contexts: 5 draft yesterday – and more horrors in terms of how some writers mis-use word processing software. I came across a new habit where, rather than use Enter/Return to start a new line in a poem, someone has simply filled out the previous line with spaces … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 22nd July →
July 21, 2023
Yesterday & Today: 21st July
Did a massive stint yesterday on New Contexts: 5. Having finished the shortlisting process, the next step is to pull together the first draft of the book. This means copying all the selected entries (79 of them) into one master document, and then begin the formatting process to ensure that the fonts, spacing, page layouts, … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 21st July →
July 20, 2023
Yesterday & Today: 20th July
Thanks to another solid session re-reading New Contexts: 5 submissions yesterday I should have my final shortlist for the anthology by the end of today. The next step after that is to pull together a rough draft of the volume to see how it looks, check it for balance etc. – at that point I’ll … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 20th July →
