February 2nd, 2022 – 1,225

~ Sam Shuttleworth

Today was a good day. I try to make a habit of booking the second of February off each year just as I do September 27th. It’s a long story, more than a few life milestones falling on this day across my life, more than one of which tie into Project4. As it is, I didn’t do much to celebrate the day, as it’s not a day I use for that purpose, though next year it’s going to be a little more celebratory if all goes to plan, even if Project4 falls through. We’ll see, as it does also rely on me getting more use out of my new drawing tablet.

I have one other reason to be a little better today, a small pick me up, one that arrived at long last in the post. And it’s every bit as wonderful as I’d hoped for.

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.