November 4th, 2021 – 1,135

~ Sam Shuttleworth

I always laugh on this day, because it reminds me of an I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue round on Historical Headlines, where Tim takes a swipe at the Guardian. The event is the Gunpowder Plot: “The Guardian: ‘Remember Remember, the Fourth of November'”. Being a dumb kid I sometimes forgot that the 4th was stuck in my head because of Clue and would get the date wrong. I’ve been thinking a lot about what was going through my mind when I was a kid these last two days, though I’ll admit not so much what my thoughts on radio comedy or gunpowder plots were. Not sure I’m ready to talk about it here though.

HOR is still going well, and I cut 400 words from WHT today so I am quite happy about that. I think the edit is going to take a lot longer than my optimistic ‘two weeks’ prediction a short while ago, but that’s ok, I’m still making progress. And more than that, I’m enjoying editing again. Can’t put a price on that; that’s good because if there was a cost, I’d have to forgo it to get my “Spend-Free Day” XP.

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.