December 4th, 2021 – 1,165

~ Sam Shuttleworth

I’m still feeling rested, but my god am I still tired in the here and now. I just need to try and spend my last day switching off from it all, and hope that I am able to write early and be ready to face the day. I have to hope, because the alternative is the mental health crash I’ve been fighting off for months. Just gotta hope…

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.