September 12th, 2021 – 1,082

~ Sam Shuttleworth

A much better day today than a lot of recent Sundays. In no small part, writing early made that possible. Right now I’m just in a mood to rest and relax ready for work tomorrow, but I did also make time to try out the new PC, which is running as an absolute delight.

I’m resigned to the fact TBS is half stuff I’m really happy with,and half an absolute mess requiring a top to bottom shift. I know what the problems are, but I think the thing holding the book back is my lack of pre-planning specifics, and my low energy when it came to coming up with ideas on the fly. Here’s hoping a rewrite fixes both.

Also BoJack Horseman is now my favourite TV show, taking over from The West Wing. Finished watching it with my partner in the small hours of the morning and man, The View From Halfway Down really does mess you up. We both lamented that we can only dream of writing that well. I hope I can some day.

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.