October 24th, 2021 – 1,124

~ Sam Shuttleworth

I have my latest copy of Writers’ Magazine open next to me, and I gotta start wondering, should I be trying to enter a few of these contests? I mean, I am still learning, but have I got my skill high enough that I may stand a chance? I am not sure, and there is no real way to know I guess than to get unbiast feedback, which may involve just entering and seeing what happens. If I treat these contests as writing prompts, then I could at least for the <5,000 word ones turn out some decent material for them, and build a portfolio. That’d be in addition to my 1K of story content though so gotta be careful about pushing myself.

I’ve also been having a fresh look at habit trackers, and I may have some neat stuff to post on that soon. Not much to say for now, but drwing experience from my love of EXP grinding and some neat concepts others have already developed probably tells you enough to guess. If you were real. Which you’re not because you’re a figment of my imagination but hey, whose to say every part of my mind knows what’s going on? Sure feels the opposite sometimes, a lot of late…

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.