July 11th, 2021 – 1,019

~ Sam Shuttleworth

Just got back to the flat, so at least something came home today. I’m not going to pretend I’m some kind of font of football knowledge, but I am a lifelong fan. I wish I still had my 2004 England World Cup coin collection, and I have a lot of odds and ends of Southend memorabelia from over the years. I hoped Englamd might go all the way to take some of the sting of the latter’s relegation from the football league, but that game was brutal. Was something to behold all the same.

I’m still needing to do target despite the hour, mostly because a friend tanked my mood earlier today for several hours, and it took a lot of work to lift myself out of that fug. So, I’m a little torn. I would have liked to spend much of the day focused on Unreachable, but as it stands, I want to get to bed at a decent time, so I’m toying with 1K of MAL. Only problem there, is that MAL is already too long. So um, I don’t know. I might just do some ‘filling out’ of short TUS chapters, and then see where that leaves me.

I’m very tired. And if I’m honest, I’m leaning towards working from home tomorrow so at least I don’t have the walk to knacker me before what’s probably going to be a busy week. At least the flat is tidy. Ish…

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.