February 10th, 2019

~ Sam Shuttleworth

I just had the surreal experience of writing this blog post on the wrong blog. That was unpleasent. In my eagarness to delete it I never copied what I wrote, so I guess I’ll be doing a complete rewrite. I seem to have an addiction for those at the moment.

Well today I did what I’d been putting off on some subconsious level for a very long time and wrote the one scene in Volcano I didn’t feel qualified to: Arthur’s botched Cambridge interview. I just went screw it, sat down and wrote it out. Funny story, I grabbed a bottle of rum and said “drink this, then write that.” and then forgot to drink the rum. Go figure; guess I’ll need to remember a few shots in the rewrite.

So goals for tomorrow – let’s go for another 1,000 words of the paper version in the form of Chapter 5. If I can keep this up, I can easily finish Volcano in a few months, then take another big swing at Spectrum as by then the reannotation will be done and I can type it up again. I did exactly zero annotating this weekend so I should aim to do at least some of that tomorrow.

Published by Sam Shuttleworth

I’m Sam, and I live to write. I spent most of the first 8 years of my adulthood trying to balance writing with a large amount of crap in my personal life, until towards the end of 2018 I threw everything out and started afresh with just my writing. I built the new me around one goal: I have to write at least 1,000 words a day. I called this goal 1K, and it changed my life. So long as I write a thousand words a day, the day is a success, and atop that I've managed over time to build the life I wanted all those years. My greatest flaws as a writer is I still use too many adjectives, adverbs, connectives as openers, accidental passive voice and I don't force my work down people's throats enough on pain of extreme and unusual torture. My greatest strength is I know my greatest flaws and I'm working on them.