May 18th, 2023 – 1,695

~ Sam Shuttleworth

“Are you a leader or a follower?”

Seriously what is your problem WordPress? I got everyone on my case about this, even sodding Tarot cards. Sheesh.

So ‘Best of Enemies’ is brilliant. If you get a chance to watch it on one of the NTL viewing services its worth doing so, powerful breakdown of that moment that TV realised how profitable it was to do mud slinging instead of journalism. I got to explain a lot of the context behind it afterwards to mum and my step dad, and where parts of it tied into my academic writing this year – especially William F Buckley Jr himself. It’s now the weekend at long last, and for the first time, I can kinda hit pause, and breathe, and in all likelihood get ill because I haven’t been pausing or breathing for sixteen months. Granted I kept saying I would, but with the exception of Seattle I didn’t, and there, well I was getting swept up in my love for America.

Quiet and calm on the cards now, even if certain other cards choose to disagree with me on that point.

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.