April 16th, 2023 – 1,663

~ Sam Shuttleworth

“What is your favorite restaurant?”

The Spice Garden in Eastbourne, absolutely mindblowing food. Their Phall is worth asking for, though you do need to request it specifically; ordering online I just order a Vindaloo and ask for the omph. Honestly it’s had some stiff competition in Seattle but I still feel it comes out on top.

I’ve managed to get into my early writing groove here at last, just in time to head back home. I’ve still got a few more days here and I will be making the most of those, but it’s been pretty tough thinking about being so far away from my partner again. But they’re worth the wait, and I will be back. I’m still writing nonsense, and having fun doing it, but I’m starting to come to accept that maybe I do need to do more. Not sure what form that takes yet, but I’m gathering my thoughts on where I want to be.

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.