Saturday 9th September 2017 Today was a gaming day. Given I have to be up early on Sundays and that I’m often behind on sleep come the end of the week I like to try and get a lay in on Saturday. It rarely goes beyond 9am no matter how hard I try. I got [...]
Friday 8th September 2017 It’s tempting to think that whilst I’m sat here playing World of Warcraft and tracking friends who are chasing Hurricane Irma, that nothing is going on with the writing career. But the fact is that whilst I try and recharge, the manuscript is currently with my agent. I got an update [...]
Thursday 7th September 2017 This evening was spent going over the new draft of my friend’s short story. I realise this is why I don’t offer to beta novels, as just a 4000 word story took me about 4 hours, which is quicker than the last time I read it. Still, given how many hours [...]
Tuesday 5th September 2017 So I appear to have a new World of Warcraft guild. And by that I don’t mean I’ve joined a new guild. You see, I joined my guild back in the days of Wrath of the Lich King when Ulduar was the current raid. We had some great times, including 9-manning [...]
Monday 4th September 2017 The day job definitely seems to be the source of my current spate of stress. I’m still not exactly sure why though. I actually wondered whether I should be starting another writing project just to take my mind off things. Perhaps this stress is all generated by the fact I have [...]
Sunday 3rd September 2017 After a few days of mystery stress, I felt something approaching normal today. I do feel like I’ve got a bit of a chill, so perhaps I have a touch of something. It’s also possible that this is a result rather than a cause. Either way, whilst I’ve felt touches of [...]
Saturday 2nd September 2017 I’ve been unable to figure out why but today I have been feeling so unbelievably stressed. The best way I can describe it is as if someone had turned the stress tap on and I couldn’t stop the flood. What’s weird though, is that I’m unable to conclude what it is [...]
Thursday 31st August 2017 After yesterday’s various annoyances, I felt a bit better today. I’m still missing my motivation and mojo but I felt being a bit more sociable today. Just as well as tonight was the regular meeting of Cake Club. Although, I’m thinking we might need to change its name to Carvery Club [...]
Thursday 20th July 2017 Today has been a day of trying to chill and get myself into the mood for my upcoming tournament. Given the way the world rankings have come along in the last year, Astolat now qualifies more than Fightcamp for the title of the UK’s national tournament. Not that there’s an official [...]
Sunday 16th July 2017 Today was my second consecutive day of swordfighting and my last weekend before the Astolat tournament. In a week's time I will know whether all those months of training will have paid off. They usually say that you fight terribly the week before a tournament. It’s almost become a swordfighting superstition. [...]
