December 9th, 2022 – 1,535

~ Sam Shuttleworth

“What big events have taken place in your life over the past year?”

…Do I even need to answer that one?

Well I started playing Wordle? Started getting into cheese twists as a snack more. Big events though, hm. Well there was that time I decided to upend my entire life and go back to university, or my sister’s wedding and birth of my nephew, or you know, the discovery I’ve had EDS this whole time coinciding with the most stark decline in my physical health yet. So yeah 2022 was pretty uneventful all told. I also wrote like 3 books, and that is notable because it’s less than usual. My life is weird.

Speaking on that last point, I theorized a couple weeks ago I might start work on a fiction project of some kind, and that just, never ended up happening. In a way it’s a good thing, because what I did instead is do a bunch of revision on good editing and common writing mistakes, and I’ve been combing through the early books to make them all better, but I do miss having a growing new project. Still, it is funny to watch as a bunch of my novels randomly sail over the 100K mark just because they’re getting some tweaks.

I need to rest this weekend on a final note. And when I say rest this weekend, for once I mean I need to rest this weekend. Like for real, can I please rest this weekend? Please?

I need to stop whining, my nine imaginary readers might unsubscribe.

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.