November 22nd, 2021 – 1,153

~ Sam Shuttleworth

Whoever heard of having a lousy November 22nd amirite? I’ve been rereading IT and part of me wants to reread 11/22/63 when I’m done, as I do like that book a lot. I’ve also been rereading a few Kennedy books on the side too, getting into the spirit of the occasion? I don’t even know if that’s a thing. I hope that’s not a thing. Who am I kidding, the internet exists, it’s 100% a thing…

You know in the OG plan for WHT I had him meet Kennedy, but it felt too on the nose. I do have him meet two other presidents and get seen by a third, but in the first outline I was going to have him escape a time he was worried about being caught in, land in and admire the renovations (Truman/Kennedy in its prime) and then have JFK catch him. Kennedy was going to recognise him on the spot, and after the initial ‘the heck was in Dr Feelgood’s pills this time…’ vibes they were going to have a chill heart to heart. In the end, I rolled that into the Lincoln encounter because, I mean, Kennedy is an odd focal point. You take assassination and CMC out of the picture and, well, it wasn’t exactly a showstopper presidency. But then, Taft did everything, so at least one Taft had that exact encounter.

I am, still not doing ok.

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.