March 19th, 2022 – 1,270

~ Sam Shuttleworth

Writing from bed continues to force target earlier in the day, but I woke up at about 10am and it’s taken 4 hours to get everything done, where par for me most days is an hour and a half. It doesn’t help that what I wrote today was drivel, absolute hgarbage that is going to get purged in a rewrite, and on rewriting TUS I ended up cutting almost as much as I added, so I can’t even upload the next chapter. THat I am less bothered about, as it’s just the way editing goes, but even so I am a bit grumble about it. Still all’s done, and now I am going to devote the rest of the day to tidying the flat, as by god, I have struggled with that over the last month. Here’s to some stability, I hope…

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.