Maureen’s 50 in 50 List
Years ago I wrote a letter to myself to be opened when I was 21 which also contained a list of things I wanted to do in my life. Since then, I’ve gotten a much better idea of who I want to be and where I’m heading so I thought it was time to re-visit the list. At the same time, Kate Forsyth posed her own 50 in 50 list which inspired me to buck up and put mine somewhere. Hers is pretty damn awesome! You can check it out here.
What’s a 50 in 50 list?
A list of things I want to do or achieve by the time I hit the youthful age of 50! I have tried to divide mine by type of thing. Let’s just say I’ll be busy for awhile!
Maureen’s List:
Writing:
1. Finish a full length novel manuscript
2. Do a script-writing course at NIDA
3. Submit a script to the BBC Writers Room
4. Get a drama commissioned by the ABC or BBC
5. Write a Doctor Who audio for Big Finish
6. Write an episode of TV Doctor Who
7. Publish novels through a mainstream publisher
8. Do a Writers Residency overseas
9. Do a Writers Residency in Australia
10. Collaborate on a writing project with another author
11. Sell 10 000 books
Careers:
12. Run my own kick-ass NGO
13. Work for Community Catalyst UK
14. Work inside Westminster
15. Make my own inclusive tour company all about pop culture themes
Cons/Festivals:
16. Go to the Agatha Christie Festival in the UK
17. Go to the UK CrimeFest
18. Go to World Fantasy Con at least once
19. Go to San Diego Comic Con
Travel:
20. Go to Broadway and see a musical
21. Design and do own self-tour of Cornwall/Wales around ‘the historical’ Merlin and King Arthur
22. See the Aurora Borealis ie Northern Lights
23. Make like Kiera Knightley on a cruise in the Carribean ie a pirate’s life for me!
24. Go to Cambodia/Laos/Vietnam
25. Walk Macchu Pichu
26. See The Sphinx and the Pyramids and do a Nile cruise
27. See Paris and the French countryside
28. Ride the Orient Express and read Murder on the Orient Express as I do it
29. Go to PEI and do the whole Anne of Green Gables thing
30. Bike ride across Europe
In My Community:
31. Learn to sing
32. Be in an amateur play
33. Take German lessons at Community College
34. Learn to dance ‘the Tango Maureen’
Celebrities:
35. Meet Helena Bonham Carter and tell her that she’s awesome
36. “I’ll be there, I’ll be seen/having tea with the Queen/I’ll forget everything/That I’ve ever, ever been” but only the once
37. Meet The Eleventh Doctor
38. Have a conversation with Phillip Pullman
39. Work on a project with Neil Gaiman or Amanda Palmer OR BOTH
40. Have an actor read my poetry onto audio beautifully
Miscellaneous:
41. Fall passionately in love
42. Have a library in my house with the words ‘The World is Quiet Here’ on the door frame
43. Have a classic Disney DVD library
44. Have a TV drama library
45. Create my own cafe and secondhand bookstore micro business
46. Record my overseas cousins life stories and make it into novels
47. Dye my hair a crazy colour/s
48. Take part in a mass historical re-enactment
49. Join the circus
50. Re-live ‘If Life Were a Musical’ with a flash mob!
