Well, it happened. The master plan that I had for this weeks blog went tits up when I decided to fall asleep at my keyboard on Monday night. Since then I have been playing catch up with myself and failing miserably. Who knew housework and you know, parenthood, would take up so much time!

Anyway, I’m chalking this week up to a false start. It happens. All the greatest athlete’s have experienced it, that moment when you’re so ready you leap forward before it’s time. That is what’s happened here, I was so preoccupied with the whole “Hey it’s New Year, better make a change!” bullshit mentality I get myself into, that I leaped before the whistle was blown.

And I’m not entirely sure that made any sense.

However!

I have been hard at work the last couple of days writing up next weeks posts in advance (Why did I never think of such a simple organisational tool before?! Preparation, who’d have thought it?) and it occurred to me, I never did explain what was happening on this blog. Which I was supposed to do at the beginning of the year. Naughty me.

So consider this my apology and my introduction of things to come.

Mondays.

Mondays have suddenly become my favourite day in the world. “Why?” I hear you ask in shocked tones (oh yes, I can hear the tones of your reading!). Well I’ll tell you. Mondays will now be known as Inspiration Mondays. The beginning of the week is always sluggish, alarms going off in the morning after a weekend of unwinding is never a pleasant experience. And personally for me, I struggle too form coherent thoughts, never mind being creative or whatever.

And so, Inspiration Mondays are born. Each week, I will post a something of interest. Could be a story from years ago, could be something in the newspaper I’ve seen. One week I may go into detail about the origins of Vampire lore, the next I may write about serial killers. Whatever piques my interest and hopefully yours too.

The aim of Inspiration Mondays is to hopefully share something that sparks the imagination in some way. For example, next weeks post (already written up by the way, go me!) is about a serial killer in the 80s. The content is a little hard to swallow, but the writer in me saw the potential for a crime novel or a horror story. It doesn’t mean I will now go and write a book based on this particular situation, but the events, however upsetting, could inspire a new character etc.

You get my point.

Tuesdays.

Continuing on from the 30 day writing challenge back in December, I’m keeping the short story element to my blog. For the first few weeks I’ll probably post the continuation of the challenges and then use writing prompts to come up with further short stories after that.

However, I will try and stick to the rule of writing a complete story in a day. I loved the challenge of it all and I work better with deadlines. Also, I honestly think that if I allow myself longer than a day, (which I swear will only happen on the rarest of occasions.) I’m just not going to get anything else done. And as well as keeping up with this blog, I have plenty of WIPs I need to work on!

Wednesdays.

Talking of WIPs… Wednesdays are now dedicated to just that. I’ll post short extracts from current projects or explain some of the background of where the ideas came from.

Closer to release, I’ll most probably use this day for cover reveals. Basically anything related to WIPs will be posted on Wednesdays unless there’s a special event on the blog. (More about that later.)

Thursdays.

We’ve hit midweek, hurrah! (Of course I’m talking about a seven day week here.) On Thursdays we’re going to have a midweek break. A little down time. The posts will be more relaxed and just for fun. We could have my top 10 authors one week and a review of an awesome game the next. It’s going to be a wild ride of unpredictability and so not to be taken seriously.

Fridays.

Nearly the weekend! Friday’s are the ones I am looking forward to the most, I think. Although I’m pretty sure I just said that about Mondays. Ah well, I’m a fickle person.

Friday’s are dedicated to my web series. The first one I’ll be kicking off with is End of Days. A story set in the Zombie apocalypse. Each week they’ll be a new installment until its completion, whenever that may be and then I’ll start of something else. Oh it’s such fun actually knowing what I’m doing!

Saturdays.

Selfie Saturdays. Okay before you all start groaning and clicking off my page, STOP!! Don’t worry, I’m not going to be spamming you with selfies of myself every week. Or barely ever, really.

Selfie Saturday is more so I can share a little bit of my life with you all. It’s not a particularly exciting life, but hey, I like connecting. This weeks post is already being written in my head as I write this, (hey I can multi task with the best of them!) and it concerns my journey to quit smoking…. again. But more on that later. It’s a more personal day where I will most likely rant about something that has happened in the week, which will hopefully entertain you while I rip out my hair in frustration.

Sundays.

Ah Sunday. End of the week. One step closer to Monday (yay!). Sunday’s are just a short post summing up the week, giving you a heads up for whats coming next time and… well, just that really.

Although each of these things will happen each week, I am going to try to put more content on my blog. If I happen to read a really good book, I’m going to write a post to recommend it to you all and it could be posted whenever. When the release dates of my books get closer, there will also be more posts on top of the daily blog including competitions, release dates and details etc.

I’m hoping that I can turn this blog into something I can be actually proud of instead of the train wreck it became in my hiatus.

Anyway, I think that’s everything. I’ve wittered on for long enough and I’m out of coffee. So…

Until next time,

Lisa x