May 2nd, 2020 – 584 – Day forty-seven

~ Sam Shuttleworth

My routine is still a mess suprise suprise. The one good thing right now is I’ve gotten good at playing chess against myself and I’m finding it a lot of fun as a zen activity. I still play on the chess.com app too of course, but not against other people just yet. I’ll get there but confidence and stability need establishing.

Writing is in a bit of a stronger position. I’ve managed to get a decent B-Story going, but I think this one is going to need a ton more edits than VOL and WHT. I always knew there was a high chance of that – it’s what happens when you write freeform. Even so the core story is working pretty well. I just need to keep chipping.

Fixing my routine is my #2 priority second only to writing each day. My three goals at the expense of all else are:

1. 1K*

2. Fix routine

3. Lose weight. Or, I think 3 is lose weight. This one is tricky because as much as alcohol and the extra junk food are fattening, they’re also keeping my mood stable. So really I think it’s actually…

3. Stabilise mental health so I can focus on losing weight.

My job fits into 2, so don’t worry I haven’t lost sight of that. So next actions:

1. Write a thousand words*

2. Transfer BuJo backlog to journal after 1 tomorrow.

3. Relax tomorrow after 2 so I’m refreshed for Monday.

Can’t put a price on a good plan.

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.