Tomorrow TWO will hit 30,000 words, which is pretty neat. the story is working well right now, though I do have to say handwriting really slows me down. I mean, yes of course it does, that’s the point, I wanted that for this draft, but I think that there’s an unseen cost to doing a book this way. It takes more willpower, and I’m not sure it’s the best idea when I’m in a bad place. Still I know that now.
I’m replying the Monkey Island games, on the 5th part of 5 – Tales – and man, this game is underrated. LeChuck’s revenge will always be my favourite but there was a moment in this last part where Insult Sword Fighting is used as a sublime narrative tool, and it might be one of my favourite bits of writing in a video game, maybe ever. So that’s neat.
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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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