May 12th, 2020 – 594 – Day fifty-seven

~ Sam Shuttleworth

I’m almost back to a normal, enjoyable routine. After a productive team meeting over Microsoft Teams, I found the willpower before starting my jobs for the day to crank out target and my journal, and this of course. Getting things done before 12pm is a large boon for me, because it makes the majority of the day sail by, which right now is a great help. I don’t want to do too much savouring and reflection while things are bleak.

Not much to report on the TFS front, except that in two days we’ll sail over the 50K mark, which I still find bizarre for a typed-first story. That’s only because I’m so used to typing already-written stories of course, but even so it’s a nice feeling to know I’ve made the switch without a hiccup it seems. Now I can focus on work, enjoy a stress-free walk later, and fingers crossed, repeat the process again tomorrow. Here’s hoping.

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.