August 4th, 2021 – 1,043

~ Sam Shuttleworth

I think I’m right in saying that 1,043 is my most common 1,000-1,100 word target day word count. That word vomit of a sentence should tell you if it isn’t obvious that I am shattered and can’t brain good right now. Will I brain good tomorrow? Who knows. I hope so, as this week is a busy one at work and I need to brain goodder to do good at brain, work, ah I dunno. I need to stop Googling Magic cards and go bed so brain has a fighting chance tomorrow. And, probably should stop absent mindedly drinking this coffee. *continues to sip coffee*

These noise cancelling headphones are wonderful. Today I found out how to turn on full noise cancelling and, it’s like being on a whole other level of focus and calm. I found it even made me less adgitated, though sadly not enough to prevent some comfort eating today. I need to get that under control so I don’t lose my progress: about a stone of weight lost in the last 6 weeks. Of course, sleep would help there…

Ok, ok I get it, I’m going to bed. Sheesh, me, why you gotta be so @ me. Ok, if I just unironically wrote that, I should have gone to bed a long time ago…

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.