Starting to feel a little less burned out, and I think it’s helped that I’ve put Project4 on the back burner. You’ll have to trust that it’s quite the ordeal, whatever it is. Suffice to say, while I have a deadline coming up I can at least take a breather from the main source of stress, focus on work, focus on writing.
Speaking of writing, at the 20K mark I have a bit more feel for what HOF as a novel will be, albeit I do also feel I’ve got a vacuum problem in a lot of my stories. I need to take a step back pre-edit and nail down what I want both the main theme, and the main feel to be, as well as a lil project I’ve been eyeing post-STO that should help improve my characters. All gonna come together, but for now just getting a draft in the can goes a long way.
And this arrived today, so am happy.
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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.
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