July 27th, 2020 – 670

~ Sam Shuttleworth

Another rough day…

I should consider moving my holiday around. I could move the Monday at the end to be this Friday instead, but it feels like stealing from future me even if only a tiny bit. I’ve resisted moving this holiday for so long now and it’s only a teeny week to get through, 4 more days, and my projects right now are far more meaty, easier to track and manage.

I have spotted today a curiosity that I could use however. A strange confluence of two dates that happens time and again as 1K progresses. Before, day 300 fell right around my birthday, but it falls on a family members birthday for day 700. Moreover, at my current benchmark and with my expected additional word count, plus a bump from some time off, I should finish WAN on that day too.

Having a benchmark to work towards helps a lot. I’ve also got a present in mi d that I’m hoping I haven’t left too late to out together. In the meantime, I’m going to focus on crashing. And by crashing I mean I still have some work tasks to do that I’d like to have wrapped before the next team meeting. Here’s hoping I sleep at least…

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.