October 2nd, 2022 – 1,467

~ Sam Shuttleworth

Restful weekend all in all. I need to try and make that the default, even if were it not for rail strikes I would have been in Falmer studying yesterday. I feel a bit run down still, but it’s more that sensation of coming close to a health crash and pulling up before, rather than careening into that brick wall of doom. I’m feeling decently ready for the week ahead, and about to make my coffee for it in my brand new Thermos, which is hopefully going to save me a fair bit of cash in the long run. Got to start watching my money closely now after all.

ATM has helped me figure out a big change I need to make to VOL, so that’s super helpful. I think this is the silver bullet I’ve needed to better edit my work for a long time now. Again, I won’t be making ATM public for some time, but the change should go into VOL pretty soon, or at least in the coming weeks. Think it’ll be the ‘ah’ moment for a thing I never quite clocked needed one.

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.