Anymore space on that bandwagon? Yes? Excellent! Let’s give this old thing a go then:
- Submit a short story to Scarlet magazine.
- Submit to Scarlet until you are accepted (ie once every 3 months until time runs out).
- Enter the Mslexia annual short story contest.
- Enter the Mslexia open submission for short stories each issue (once every three months).
- Enter the Bridport Prize competition.
- Find other magazines taking open submissions and write to them.
- Research other writer’s mags and see if there are any worth subscribing to.
- Do NaNoWriMo. Every November in the 1001 day period.
- Write a novel-length story (outside of NaNoWriMo) and finish it.
- Redraft a full-length project.
- Write a poem (properly with considered effort).
- Get something into print (doesn’t include below).
- Write something for Mensa magazine.
- Write to the Mensa SIGs I joined and participate.
- Read all the books in the avalanche stack (100+).
- Watch the backlog of foreign language films.
- Read the books on the list.
- Read something drastically different (for me probably crime).
- Read a book of modern poetry.
- Write professional-style critiques of books you read.
- Write professional-style critiques of movies you watch.
- Write professional-style critiques of albums you listen to.
- Do a professional development course.
- Do a course in something fun just for the sake of it.
- Make a handmade gift for each person you love.
- Handmake every birthday card you send in the 1001 days.
- Sew a huge quilt out of scraps.
- Sew a picture and hang it on the wall.
- Paint 5 pictures.
- Sew an item of clothing you actually wear.
- Mod the worn out clothes you’ve been saving so they can be used again.
- As clothes need replacing, get replacements made of natural fibres.
- Make things I can sell (then I can call myself a professional *credentialsfail*).
- Meet up with old friends at christmas.
- Send birthday cards and gifts to more people (2 so far).
- Invite people to the house more. (5)
- Have a party.
- When you move house have a house warming party.
- Take partner on an airplane.
- Take partner camping (because he’ll like it).
- Take partner (and possibly others) to Alton Towers.
- Take partner to the Sealife Centre (which we’ve been saying we’ll do for so long it’s become a joke).
- Take partner to Brighton.
- Travel to Germany.
- See Berlin.
- See Paris.
- See Venice.
- See Edinburgh.
- See another random city.
- Find the Jewellery Quarter.
- Go to a local museum.
- See a play.
- See something at the MAC when it reopens (a year from now).
- See Phantom of the Opera (live, duh).
- See Amanda Palmer again when she next tours. Give her cookies.
- Exercise once a week. Keep score. (total epic fail)
- Learn a yoga routine and use it to fix posture.
- Set up a compost heap/bin.
- Make the photobook of Birmingham.
- Pay off your overdraft.
- Start paying off your student loans.
- Put money into your savings account. Don’t take it out again.
- Stay up and watch the sun rise at midsummer.
- Swim in the sea.
- Have a picnic in a forest.
- Take an artist’s holiday in St Ives.
- Move house with partner to a couplenest. Make it tacky.
- Learn to cook 10 real recipes, not hashed together made up crap. (salmon fishcakes, carrot cake, pancakes, enchilada)
- Use at least some of those recipes to cut down meat consumption.
- Clear out my room and dispose of all unwanted stuff.
- Clear out my room at my parents house and dispose of all unwanted stuff.
- Learn to meditate properly (by myself without cheating).
- Go to the new Eddies.
- Don’t even set foot in a Tesco store.
- Don’t eat fast food (Maccies, BK, KFC).
- Check more carefully for Nestle owned products (to never buy them).
- Be in position to buy a house.
- Go to the dentist.
- Wean myself of television.
- Wean myself off sugar.
- Do NOT buy any books. Gifts and gift tokens are allowed. (fail)
- Give blood (scary, not because of the needles but because I faint, probably take an afternoon to recover).
- Actually buy the CDs of people I really, really like and fund it by avoiding impulse purchases.
- Learn to play piano (only if I can afford a keyboard/blag one for xmas off my parents or something).
- Get the train to Warwick and see the castle.
- Get the train to Stratford and do something touristy/pretentious to do with Shakespeare.
- Finish the DS games I’ve borrowed and hoarded from people.
- Save all my pennies for 1001 days (how rich will I be?).
- Update the Bisexual Icons page every week. (fail)
- Join the local library.
- Get internet banking (yes, I know, I’m about 5 years behind).
- Learn how to sell on ebay.
- Set up part-time freelance work.
Deadline: 7th July 2011
