May 12th, 2022 – 1,324

~ Sam Shuttleworth

Today went much better than yesterday. I am, not sure why yesterday went quite as wrong as it did, but I have a sneaking feeling I’ve not been pacing myself properly. It’s funny, because I’m the 1K guy, my whole aesthetic is pacing myself, but here I am, burning out because I’m trying to hold too many apples. And you know what’s funny? And by funny I mean INFURIATING. I know how to fix this, and I’ve known for years. It’s called the Pomodoro method and I seem to be allergic to trying it. I do not get it, why is it that the idea of working for 25 minutes and taking a 5 minute break breaks me? It’s so simple, and it’s better than my ‘work 5 hours at full pace, 1 at half and then turn into a vegetable until morning unless I burn out and turn into one longer. Bleh.

I am currently on the ‘NHO is the worst thing I’ve ever written from a quality perspective and I should be ashamed’ side of the mental tennis court. It’ll rally back to ‘NHO is fine and I’ll fix it in the rewrite’s side soon enough. But I did at least write on my break, and now I can relax for the evening, so to be honest Imma call that a win.

Also the Principal/CEO of the college complimented the TeenyPC today, so that was cool.

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.