December 27th, 2019 – 457

~ Sam Shuttleworth

I have spent today orbiting around Magic cards in one form or another. I won three games of commander, my Secret Lairs arrived and I got a super expensive Planeswalker. I got a Selesnya mug that’s super nice and I’ll be having my coffee in that later.

Ok that’s the gibberish on Magic to switch off my imaginary readers’ attention. TSS to write when I get home, and I feel pretty great about that. I’ve written the “different” chapter and it’s pretty awful at the moment, but I’ll be able to fix it in time. It’s better I power ahead for now and work on fixing it when I can.

I’m doing ok. Christmas helped and I’m in a good headspace at the moment. I’m not 100% yet, but I’m a lot better than I have been in a long time. I’m happy, and yes that’s not a sustainable state, but it’s nice while it lasts and I’ve made the most of it.

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.