There are a pile of papers on my Living Room floor, carefully arranged in chapter order, awaiting for me to start my first edit. I keep looking at the papers in the vain hope that the edit will write itself, but knowing deep down inside, that once completed, this will signify the next step of other people reading my words. I have every confidence in the storyline that I have created, but is my writing strong enough to carry it through? Only time will tell, I guess.
Follow my journey to see if I can complete a set of 40 tasks before my 40th birthday.
Completed Tasks
24/40
Currently Working On....
Learning a foreign language and choosing a location for skinny dipping
The List
- 1) Learn a foreign language - in progress
- 2) Watch a foreign film - completed
- 3) Go skinny dipping
- 4) Snog Take That
- 5) Write a novel and get published - in progress
- 6) Go in a hot air balloon - completed
- 7) Work in Africa
- 8) Go to an international football match in the new Wembley - completed
- 9) Visit all 50 states of America - in progress (4/50)
- 10) Get my own column in a newspaper/magazine
- 11) Win a BAFTA
- 12) Do a sponsored hike/bike ride for charity - completed
- 13) Read all of the BBC Top 100 reads - completed
- 14) Go to Wimbledon - completed
- 15) Rescue an animal from captivity - in progress
- 16) Be a Mum
- 17) Go to a Paul Smith fashion show
- 18) Watch the Lord Of The Rings trilogy - completed
- 19) Go surfing - completed
- 20) Go to the ballet - completed
- 21) See a Shakespearean play at the RSC in Stratford - completed
- 22) Drive a Ferrari - completed
- 23) Have tea at the Ritz in London - completed
- 24) Create a short film to go onto You Tube - completed
- 25) Learn to do the tango - completed
- 26) Meet Mr T
- 27) Own a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes - completed
- 28) Be in Times Square, NY at midnight on New Years Eve - completed
- 29) Write a script/story for Dr Who - completed
- 30) Ride on a Harley Davidson to Ayres Rock
- 31) Go to an ice hockey match - completed
- 32) Go to a baseball match - completed
- 33) Watch a Nottingham Forest match from an executive box - completed
- 34) Learn to play chess - completed
- 35) Fly a trapeze - completed
- 36) See Rick Springfield in concert
- 37) Fly over the Grand Canyon - completed
- 38) Watch all of the James Dean films - completed
- 39) Cook with a celebrity chef
- 40) Go to the Grand Prix
About Me
- Janette
- A couple of years ago, I decided that my life needed a challenge and I would put together a list of everything I wanted to do before I was 40. I e-mailed various media sources and BBC Radio Nottingham have kindly adopted me (sort of!). I will be doing regular updates on the Breakfast/Morning shows
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Followers
The Tomorrow People
- 100 Goals 100 Weeks
- 101 Things (Jessica)
- 101 Things To Do Before You Die
- Being Desi
- Biker Ted Diaires
- Cameras Don't Shoot People
- Caroline Smailes
- Casa Costello
- Cibele Camargo
- Dave Gorman
- Fit For Nothing
- Fluttering Butterflies
- GE 40 Things To Do Before I'm 40
- Jane
- Leaving The Room With Dignity
- Marigeo Love
- Mug Of Strong Tea
- Nik Perring
- One Man's Travels
- Pink Gecko
- Shopaholly
- Silk and Shadows
- Tim Young
- Trousers
- Two Men, A Cat And Me
- Watching Geordie Life
- What Happened After The Blue Line
- Whats Happening At My House
- Willy The Prince
- World Of Kate
The Ones That Help
- BBC Radio Nottingham
- BBC Top 100 Reads
- Ben Nevis
- Broadway Media Centre
- Bubblecow
- Husband
- Jimmy Choo
- Marie Curie Cancer Care
- New York Trapeze School
- Nottingham Forest FC
- Nottingham Panthers Ice Hockey
- Paris Je t'aime
- Paul Smith
- Rick Springfield
- Scarborough Surf School
- Sheffield Bladerunners
- Silverstone Grand Prix
- The Ritz
- Virgin Balloon Flights
- We've Got Mr T
- Wimbledon
- Yorkshire Dance
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8 comments:
Go on, get a move on! You might even enjoy it....
:o)
Okay, I'll start it today, honest...!
Yes, I know the feeling. I hate editing my own work....I'm lazy that way.
Get to it, I can't wait to read your book.
I love your list! Good luck on the book
I think I'd find the editing less daunting than writing it in the first place...but that's just me. And I could be wrong, at any rate (in other words, shut up, trousers!).
So: what b said.
Heather - I think I've come out of the 'zone' so I need to put myself right back in there.
Cheryl - welcome and thank you for your support. PS I love your illustrations!
Trousers - Editing is a little more scary as it's one step nearer showing other people your work and gulp, what if they say it's crap?
What is your book about? Good luck with it! How long do you have until you need to have ticked everything off your list?
Tabby - the book is about a girl's relationship with her Father growing and the subsequent relationships with other men that come into her life and the effect they have. I have about 2 and a half years left to do the list (officially that is i.e. before I'm 40).
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