January 6th, 2022 – 1,198

~ Sam Shuttleworth

Treason’s Greetings! Nah don’t worry I’m not gonna go all political, just couldn’t resist. This week has been pretty darn awful all told, but I mean, eh. I’m just gonna do what I can tomorrow and then try to rest this weekend. On the plus side, I think the opening act of HOF is starting to take decent shape. There’s a central conflict I think I can make work, but I do also think I need to add a bit more thought into the location of this one, as it’s far more prominent than it was in book one.

My goal tomorrow is gonna be to write before 5pm, so I can just stop and rest. But I’m also gonna try and do some art. I was finishing up a present this evening – a pastel on canvas gift for my granny’s birthday – and it just was such a nice thing to work on. I’m really glad about how it came out, and I miss doing art more often. To be honest, I’ll settle for resting, but it would be nice to do more.

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.