Second draft
5 days ago
Just getting started on it today :-) 750 words in the first hour.
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write a novel and get it published
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Memorise 14 bible passages
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create a language
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learn blender
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Learn Romanian
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travel south of the equator
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learn the constellations
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Go on an African Safari
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Read all the books on the BBC Big Read Top 100
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Memorise "If" by Rudyard Kipling
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see the northern lights
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pray without ceasing
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learn how to prepare 10 excellent meals
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Drink a Purple Tropical Space Hamster
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Go to bed by midnight every day for a week
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See all the films that have won the Best Picture Oscar
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Teach my children to appreciate art, passion and the beauty of nature
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learn to cartwheel
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Learn contact juggling
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Make more spanish speaking friends
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build a memory palace
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save the world
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See Evanescence Live
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get fit again
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lose 5 kg
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practice my clarinet more
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get a saxophone
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go to a ceilidh
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Watch my entire DVD collection in Spanish
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learn how to use a quarterstaff
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build a tardis
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Learn Japanese
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go out on "date nights" with my spouse on a regular basis
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try snowboarding
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Sell one of my photographs
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I’ve just finished the first draft of my novel, a little shorter than I anticipated, at 74000 words – (I somehow had two copies of one of the chapters in there, which had bolstered the length. Whoops!)
I actually feel slightly shell shocked to have done it.
Now I’m going to print it, and put it away for a couple of weeks – then read, and start the rewrite.
I’m just writing the penultimate scene – the big action climax. I’d better not stop long – I’ll lose my momentum! After that, I just have the “tie up loose ends” kind of bit at the end.