I feel I lean far too much into goofball humour in even my serious books. Ok, I know I said a few days ago it’s nice to let my hair down with this, and that just yesterday – I think? – I said I was having fun now, but I do think it compromises some of the tone I need to be setting to write a book like this. I’m not saying it has to be all doom and gloom – lord knows I can swing too far that way too – but I need a sort of swingometer between goofy and morbidly depressing. Really some nuance at all would go a long way. i’Ll gEt iT iN tHe eDiT…
Also, I am in horrible pain. Just thought I’d chip that in. Imma go lie down now…
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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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