September 19th, 2021 – 1,089

~ Sam Shuttleworth

The last 100 or so days have been a weird rollercoaster right? I mean 1K1K threw me but damn if I haven’t had the ground moving time and again in the three months since. The one upshot is as we close in on another 100 days, I’m not being dumb and marking it. I likely will also not mark 3Y1K with much beyond relief that TBS will be done and I’ll have a new book to focus on instead, one so different to TBS as to be a complete pallette cleanser. Don’t get me wrong, I still like TBS, I think the story is good, and I think the novel can be made great, but I need some space from it at this point.

And this week, I need some space in general. I’ll be asking to book some time off once I’ve cleared my backlog caused by being ill last week, and then I’ll rest, tidy my things away and uproot to pastures new. Here’s to new beginnings, right?

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.