Ok, I think I’ve found a strategy for my burnout. After work today I picked up a new journal, and I’m using it to write silly little stories that are, and always will be, just for me. And I gotta say while yes it’s not really much more than literary doodling it does help soothe me. I’m hoping it’ll help my burnout a bit.
HOF is going to have at least three more chapters if you count the epilogue, so I think I’ll have it finished in about 8-9 days. Good, riddance. I like the story bit this execution is excruciating. It’ll be interesting to see if my more throwaway writing ends up improving my regular prose. I have to hope that after this trainwreck.
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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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