This is a much later night than I intended it to be, but an inevitable one given how bad my day at work was. So many systems being faulty and making even tiny jobs take several hours to complete. I’m going right to bed now all my 1K tasks are done but man, I’ve got a lot to do tomorrow, including on my breaks getting the damn flat tidy.
TWO has another 1,200 words in the bank. The first chapter looks like it’ll be about 2,400 words long, or give it take 7 pages. That’s a good indicator that the finished book will be closer to TFS length than TSS, and a lot longer than TUS. I’m ok with that, high-80K range is a good place for a novel, I don’t like to overstay my welcome. And it’s good prose, feels a lot more organic than I have for a while. I just hope I write earlier tomorrow.
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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.
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