December 3rd, 2020 – 799

~ Sam Shuttleworth

Verge of day 800, verge of climbing out of my rut, starting to feel human again but it’s taking a long time to do. I’m still back to writing late, still dealing with a work backlog, but slowly I’m starting to find my feet again. It’s a tough barrier to breach but I want to so bad that I think I’m going to soon. The wall of awful is starting to crack, even if it’s not quite crumbling just yet.

I’m closing in on the end of TWO’s first act, so that’s a positive I’m trying to focus on. I am also editing TFS, but unlike TSS which I’m uploading now, I’m not filled with confidence rereading this one. I picked a different genre and type of story for each book to decide where I wanted my niche to be, and I don’t think mystery and investigation is that genre. Kinda funny given I tried this quirky writing analysis app that told me I write like Agatha Christie. I dunno about that but I don’t share her gift for mysteries.

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.