January 17th, 2021 – 844

~ Sam Shuttleworth

I replayed Curse of Monkey Island to the end today and it’s official, I do now love it. It took me a while because I came to 3 late and knowing about the lack of Gilbert soured me on it. But looking objectively and accepting that it’s not the original vision for 3 but still has value, I’ve come to treasure it. I’m so excited for the special edition from Limited Run, and I even have a whole shelf saved for all the parts, except the posters, those are going on the walk behind my sofa.

So writing, TWO is at 75,600 words right now and will soon enough when I finish target break 76K. I’m ‘bringing it in for a landing’, albeit with the action filled final confrontation less than 2,000 words away now. I’m a bit nervous because this is one of the rawest parts of the series, and the darkest too. It’s going to shake me up a bit writing it but that’s normally a good sign I’ve written something of value. I’m looking forward to having it finished, though at least in part that’s so I don’t have to handwrite target for a long, long while…

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.