UPDATED GOALS - SEPTEMBER 2017

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Because this place truly is a time vortex, setting goals are one way I can try and stop just drifting along. This time I thought I'd take it one stage further and publish the list online in my shiny new blog, why not? So here goes....

SURVIVAL GOALS
  • See my friend wearing her mortarboard graduation hat - December 2018 
  • Survive long enough to see what life is like after Brexit - March 2019 
IMMEDIATE GOAL
  • Get this blog going and updated regularly to share my ongoing work on the Cancer Odyssey book 
END OF YEAR GOALS
  • Have a 100,000 word first draft Cancer Odyssey manuscript complete 
  • Have produced a track of sufficient quality to be "sent off for rejection" to a label 
  • Complete the year having read 100 books (so roughly averaging 2 a week) 
BONUS GOAL
  • Have completed a 10,000 word work of fiction

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