October 26th, 2021 – 1,126

~ Sam Shuttleworth

OK, we are starting to stabilize. Blogging a little later than I’d like but I hit target just before 5pm, so it all kinda works out. That’s the good side. The bad side is I can still feel I am not exactly ‘OK’, more, well, ‘starting to stabilize’. How far away is ‘OK’? No idea. This is the first step though, and honestly having 90% of my routine back is a heck of a start. I’m about to go for a walk to bank 8,000 steps, then wind down for the evening, so all in all, it could be a lot worse. Not raining today at least.

HOR is taking shape, but I am unsure how intense the next scene is going to be. Part of me wants an action-filled set piece and another part worries that I default to that way too often. Maybe my books will just be like that and it will be fine, but I kinda want more nuance than boom bang chase run explosion. One to think on. Which is actually why walks are so great.

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.