March 6th, 2023 – 1,622

~ Sam Shuttleworth

“What are three objects you couldn’t live without?”

My diary, my bullet journal, and at least some kind of working pen. If I have those, I can do everything short of blogging and the daily Wordle. Sub out the pen and you can’t do the journalling, but if I’m allowed to have a pen as a free item, I’d give an honorary nod to this laptop, not least as when I am barely functional it’s always the most comfortable way to write. Speaking of…

So I didn’t sleep last night. It was a mess, and a terrible start to the week. If there weren’t renovation works going on in my flat today I’d have called in sick and rested this off, but as it is now I’m on campus, I am better than I was. That isn’t saying a whole lot, but what can you do. The one advantage of the all-nighter is I got target done super early, and I’m posting this at just past 11am after doing some email tidying. It’s a wretched day, but I’m making the best of it.

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.