October 15th, 2019 – 384

~ Sam Shuttleworth

Note to self: getting soaked through and sitting in wet clothes for several hours is bad. Also, turns out my back up coat is nowhere near waterproof enough. I’m not in great shape, and while I’ve managed to clear my work queue I’m feeling awful. You might think it won’t matter too much, what with booking off Friday and Monday. After all with a four day weekend I would have plenty of time to recover.

…Yeah I, haven’t booked them off. I know that I said that I would. I also know that I should book them off. But I doubt that I will. Call it stubbornness, or cowardice, but I can’t. I need to, but a mixture of worry about running out of holiday and dislike of booking short notice holiday is in the way. It is what it is, my mental blocks as much obstacles I must compensate for as work hours and nutritional needs.

The good news is, if today becomes part two of gutting VOL, then I have an easy path to quota. I’m going to purge 15,000 words, and in the process no doubt I’ll add at least a thousand. I’ll track my new additions in a seperate Google Doc as I go to track when I’ve hit target. With luck, I can use my break now to get the majority of this done. Time will tell, but I hope I’ll finish by 5pm. Last night, having target done helped so much.

Wish me luck.

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.