April 11th, 2021 – 928

~ Sam Shuttleworth

I’ve just been so distracted these last few days. I think my brain has just been in open rebellion at all the pressure I put it under. Sucky but inevitable I guess. I managed not to get ill, unless you count the strange red marks I got all over the back of my hand again. No idea what causes those but my leading theory based on when they’ve appeared is it’s stress based. Doesn’t help that I’ve been making a point of taking up socialising offers whenever they pop up. No regrets on that, it’s been a big mental health boon.

TWO is gonna be 92K. As you might guess I didn’t sprint yesterday, though I did end up on a total of 1,470. 4K to go in two days. However tomorrow will have a bit less distraction tomorrow so who knows, maybe I’ll sprint then. 89K by the end of today, assuming I now don’t add more. Less chance of that than yesterday. But hey, if I overshoot it’s not like the deadline matters. It would be nice to finish before or on my birthday though.

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.