March 17th, 2021 – 903

~ Sam Shuttleworth

Ok in spite of how much the news on Sunday knocked me for 6 and in spite of how much my routine has slipped, I am still holding steady right on the edge of sustainable. I have to go right to bed to maintain it so, again, another short entry, but this is better than slipping into late night targets and the well of despiar that is chaining 4 hour nights of sleep in a body that demands seven and a half to function at all. So yeah, I am keeping my head above water, my work inbox empty and my mental health just about together. And I also managed to write some decent words of TWO tonight. Everybody wins. Please, for the love of god write early tomorrow…

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.