August 30th, 2020 – 704

~ Sam Shuttleworth

Really starting to slip bad now. I think the exhaustion is just catching up bad, so I might look at booking the week starting the 7th off, even as I plan to book off the 27th and the data around. I need to do some course correction and it needs to take place while I’m still relatively lucid.

Story wise things are a bit rosier. The first four chapters of The Whispering Rail have a lot going on in them for excitement and intrigue. I feel I’m getting better at engaging content our the gate, though what I really need to get better at is editing my back catalogue. I still plan on a triple entry to the Wattys, but I’d like to at least try and spruce the triplets up.

I need to go row. I also need to stop leaving this until super late in the day. I end up having to row super quiet to not be anti social, which kind of defeats the point. Got a lot to sort out…

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.