January 26th, 2021 – 853

~ Sam Shuttleworth

I have missed typing target so much it’s unreal. Again, I’m glad I typed TWO’s first draft, no ragrets as they say. Old meme but I’m an old fart so eh. The day has gone well, I’ve even done about 5,000 words of a comission for a friend. Sounds impressive but while I still strive for quality it’s always easier writing for someone else. Still it’s nice to be back at top form again, and to feel a lil more in control. Unfortunately I slept badly last night, so I really need to fix that tonight.

TWO is shaping up well and I’m pretty confident about the rewrite on the whole. The re-edit of TUS is going pretty smooth as well and I’m hoping to get my beta reader/first editor to get the red pen all over it soon. So all to play for, and a happy end to January. I just hope this is indicative of the year’s trajectory. Excuse me if I don’t hold my breath just yet.

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.