November 6th, 2022 – 1,502

~ Sam Shuttleworth

I did not manage to sleep until 7am yesterday. That does not bode well. As a result, I’m writing this at gone-11pm – what else is new – but it feels way earlier than that. I just have to hope my body will let me sleep when I turn in, which will be in about 5 minutes. But that blip aside, I did manage to have a restful weekend. Was it ideal? Eh, not exactly, but I did get to spend quality time with my partner, and I played a lot of Stardew. I need to do that more on my laptop too, because it’s amazing how much it helps. Just pulled off year 1 community centre again so feeling pretty chuffed. I got the red cabbage seeds on Winter 19, so had to Speed Grow them to be sure, but I mean yeah not bad at all. But I really wanna take this save file and make a beautiful farm, go for perfection and just run with it for once. As much as I like starting over, it’s nice to take some time to make what I already have better.

There’s probably a message hidden in ^ there about not rushing onto new writing projects and it being ok to spend so much time of late adding to the existing books. One to think on.

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.