November 5th, 2022 – 1,501

~ Sam Shuttleworth

Didn’t do any of the celebrating that comes with November 5th, but admittedly I haven’t gone to a bonfire night event since about 2012. I do find the lore and pageantry around it as an event fascinating, but the loud noises aren’t for me and the crowds can be a little overwhelming. Still, it’s sad that it rained this year, even if that is the UK in a nutshell: a literal rained-on parade. So not to rain on the parade that is celebrating the start of the next 100/500/whatever words of 1K, but I think I’m not in a great mental place. I know right, who’d have ever guessed after so many ‘healthy’ 11pm posts amirite? I think once I get past the essay deadlines, I need to have a serious think about projects going forward.

Here’s where my mind is: I work best when I do have a main project, but ‘Main Story Focus’ would be too rigid for uni. That’s fine, but I do need a project to focus on. And I need to kick that off sooner rather than later.

Also I need to set up a new keyboard on my home PC as this one is broken as all hell now for no reason. I can no longer recommend the Azio Retro Classic. And given it was a gift I feel pretty lousy all told. So yeah, woo for new beginnings and all that…

(I have to slam the space bar every time because it’s ‘stuck’, feels wretched…)

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.