November 26th, 2022 – 1,522

~ Sam Shuttleworth

Wow, does it feel good to be writing this at quarter to three in the afternoon instead of 11pm! It does indeed. I got jabbed yesterday and it hasn’t been 24 hours yet, but the worst I’ve felt is the aching arm, which, well I ache all the time anyway so it’s not that hard to compensate for. Hoping I don’t just fall apart tomorrow or Monday, but it does at least look unlikely. And yes, I woke up today, took a chill start, and then did all my writing in a nice and timely way. I jumped from TSS to WHT, which is an odd choice to work on extending as it currently sits at 117K, but I want to get every book to having 3K~ chapters as that feels like a good starting point. Then I’ll go through and just start hacking at all 14 with a meat cleaver. TSS is now 111K, and I am pretty sure it’ll sit at closer to 90K once I’m done trimming.

But all that is in the future, I’ve earned a carefree day, and I’m gonna go back to digging up corpses in peace.

…In Graveyard Keeper, just so we’re clear.

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.