May 23rd, 2023 – 1,700

~ Sam Shuttleworth

“How do you feel about cold weather?”

It’s my absolute favourite. I adore when the world outside is cold, albeit I like having the option to then heat up indoors, and man, the government isn’t making that easy for a lot of people right now. I give up, this is a political blog now, who cares NO ONE IS READING THIS. Especially you Nina. See you’re probably wondering if that’s a bluff or a reference or if I’m actually addressing someone called Nina; maybe you are Nina. Except no one is reading this so HA, double twist! I am, very tired.

But I wrote after work in the office, so that’s good. I have actually arranged to – fingers crossed – go back up to 4 days a week over the holidays, which will be lovely as I can come into the office and stay every evening. Man apologies to get sappy and also if you’re not in a good place yourself, but I am so grateful I get to do a job I enjoy, in a place I like to be. Also, Pokedex is up to 141! It’s gonna be slow going for now, as 7 out of 10 of the mons left need 10 levels of grinding each. Also woo, double-zero day.

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.