April 3rd, 2022 – 1,285

~ Sam Shuttleworth

This weekend has, kind of been restful? Like, I’m still reeling from the medical implications of Wednesday, and I have a horrific day lined up for the morning of this Wednesday coming – which I still need to book off – but as far as my general stress levels go, this is manageable. NHO is not coming out especially better than HOF, and I am not all that surprised. I do hope TEL is a marked improvement, and kinda suspect it will be, but I will have to wait and see for that until July or so. I still find it neat that I’ve made this much progress in such a short space of time, and I can’t quite believe I’m on the penultimate book of the series, even if they all need a lot of work. Having a bunch of first drafts banked is a huge step forwards, just as I prepare to take a big ol’ step into the unknown.

But for now, none of that matters. I’m going to rest, and await whatever comes next.

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.