April 24th, 2023 – 1,671

~ Sam Shuttleworth

“How do you unwind after a demanding day?”

Assuming I have my writing done, I like to play video games. I am trying to get back into playing Pokemon on a more regular timescale now, but I haven’t been the best at sticking to that. A lot of the time I end up either on mobile games like Solitaire, or on Magic Arena, but I do play Raft with my friends and fiance. And sometimes if I have the energy I’ll play a more demanding option like some Psychonauts 2. And some nights, I’ll boot up Day of the Tentacle for the billionth time, because that game is my ultimate comfort experience.

Oh yeah you did read that right by the way. I didn’t want to announce our engagement until I had a chance to make sure most of the family knew, but yes I am now officially engaged. We were sort of engaged before, but I wanted it to become official in person so we could have the memory of the moment to look back on.

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.