January 16th, 2023 – 1,573

~ Sam Shuttleworth

“In what ways do you communicate online?”

…hi. While I would do more than a joke answer here, it kinda feels a teeny bit like doxxing myself so I think imma pass on this one, sorry WordPress. I mean to be fair, this blog is literally my most prolific online communication place, so it’s not like I’m lying there.

I have started getting back into Pokemon again, which is really nice. It’s one of those things that I hyperfixate on for ages, and then I end up dropping for ages. For example, I assembled all the Gen IV games to get the full National Dex ages ago, and then after several months of grinding just stopped. Well I’ve picked up that quest again, along with a playthrough of FireRed, and some planned shiny hunting/breeding in FireRed and SoulSilver respectively. Is nice, having some hobbies on the side of writing to chill out to. I’m taking the trumpet slow until my chest is less clammed up, but hopefully that’ll be soon, especially as I don’t wanna be coughing a week today when classes resume.

…Man my predictions ‘I’ll just get ill’ for the holidays were pretty accurate huh…

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.