November 7th, 2021 – 1,138

~ Sam Shuttleworth

Today was an odd day. Fell out of my write-by-5pm streak, and I ended up so tired that, to be honest, it’s a miracle I am writing this as soon as I am. Stressed and tired, but still going. Not feeling very confident in my own writing at the moment, or my capabilities to edit and improve my own work. Still, what can you do, I’ll improve if I keep at it. I know why I don’t like my current writing, and I have some idea how to improve it, but I need to do a lot to get there. If I can’t get those changes in place soon though, my general mood is going to suffer for it. Have to get past my shortcomings and feel a win soon.

I could in theory start working on a side project that I keep pure of those defects, but I don’t think it’ll help to overburden myself. I think if I can just keep my head on straight though, there’s no reason I can’t fold it into HOR from here on in. Using the 543241 method both to stay calm, and to try and embed more details into my scenes. No sense getting overwhelmed, just gotta keep using little tools like that, and I’ll find my way.

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.