July 8th, 2022 – 1,381

~ Sam Shuttleworth

I spent almost all day just playing Pokémon and that was nice. More of that please. I think that I need to let the entire weekend be this and I’ll be A-OK. Or I hope so anyway. I got the Pikachu-Coloured Pichi and Spiky Eared Pichu so I’m happy. Going after Lugia, my favourite legendary Pokémon, and I’m just feeling that childlike contentment you know? More of that. Less stress, less high stakes, just chill.

So an interesting trend: I’ve gone back to making minor edits at most, but I’m writing over 1,200 on average a day of TEL, and I think that’s ok? I don’t know if I like the way it implies I consider 1,200 the benchmark as, well that’s moving the goalposts, and there’s no need to do that. But, I don’t think that’s what’s happening. I’m just having fun writing it, and writing excess because I’m having fun is like, the dream state to be in. So rather than a concern, I think this is a sign I’m getting to a happy place at last.

More of that.

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.