January 15th, 2021 – 842

~ Sam Shuttleworth

This week was a slog, and this weekend is going to be pretty crucial in righting the ship. There’s a lot to sort in the flat, and a lot of the last ‘closing of one account, opening of another’ style tasks still to do. I’m doing that on low batteries and with more than a few added pressures that, well I could do without but are self imposed. Money will at least be easier going forward.

TWO is now at 73,000 words, so with target today and tomorrow I should get to that magic 75K mark. Yes it’s arbitary and it’s 5K more than the standard ‘novel’ cut off, which is also arbitary but hey, what are standards but arbitary norms? Doesn’t mean they aren’t useful. And the big 75 is a psychological barrier to breach that helps a great deal. From here it’s very much home stretch as I’m into the 3rd act. Keeping a level head is going to be key.

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.