What a busy day! I worked late, I had to run about to get my power back on so the plumber could work on checking my boiler, and on top of all that I had a volunteering meeting tonight too. I was so tired that I was dead walking I got home tonight, and I still hadn’t written. Then I did some Lego, and I started to feel better. It wasn’t instantaneous, but having a simple activity, one with clear, defined steps, one that I could touch, with little tactile clicks. It seemed to help soothe me in a way that other forms of creativity haven’t, though I’m still hoping jigsaws will help there.
For now though, I need to go lie down. I just hope I start getting these posts done before 11pm soon.
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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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