Thursday, January 22, 2009

22 January - Back in 2006

Back in 2006 I had started a blog where I was going to peg useful stuff I came across from own experinece and other people's and without being too patronising I was going to turn their 'incidents' into a humorous (and useful) lesson, one of those that would subsitute that boring, but true old wisdom that people older than you pass on but you think it's just old people's interfering.
As it happens I am now well on the way to turn into that old person.

Below is what I had written on the dashboard of that blog, as of couse I had loftier ambitions to turn it into a book or some such. But the longer I take the more books get published to weigh down the advice sections of bookshops or get turned into movies like 'He's just not that into you' or er.. that one.

I didn't want mine to be in the advice section in any case as I don't buy those books. Ok, liar! of course I did, but back in that decade when people care about those things, ie their thirties - at least it's my experience that when younger than that you really don't think you need any advice, and older than that, well, you should have learnt it by then don't you think? Which is where my blog came in...

For now, I'll resume and limit myself to add on each lesson as I had gathered a good thirty or so to start.

But here goes.... the past good intentions,now if I could find that old memory stick where it all is stored....


1000 LESSONS- Where to start?
This blog is on the net to hold the blueprint of a semi-fictional, semi-authobiographical, semi-self-help, semi-entertaining book I'm writing.

I plan to gather some good old fashioned 'lessons' that could make our lives easier. Unfortunately, it is in the nature of human beings not to learn anything that fast or without peril. Sure, we all learn not to stick our fingers in the socket after the first electric shock - if we've survived, that is - but life presents more complicated situations than that. Has anyone learnt not to dial ex lovers when drunk for example? .... ..... Didn't think so!

Below is the ad by which I'm happily soliciting any examples you may want to offer or see added to this blog. If you have a story to contribute, post a comment with your email address or how to contact you and I'll be in touch. And though you will be acknowledged and thanked, ultimately the copyright rests with me. Hope you're happy with this.

Writer/TV production company collecting '1000 Lessons You Haven't Learnt Yet' (or have finally learnt, or wish you'd learnt or will learn in the next lifetimes - hopefully) for a partly serious and partly tongue in cheek project comprising a book and possibly a TV series to follow.

If you can't figure this out, use the recent 'Is it just me or is Everything Shit?' by Alan MacArthur (described on book jacket as 'A life-affirming guide to the modern world') for bookmark/inspiration. These ‘lessons’ can be from any stage of your life or from someone else’s. They can be practical or philosophical, light or deep, funny or tragic. Please submit as many as you like: they can be one liners or if possible you could tell a simple anecdote or write the 'lesson' out into a fuller/longer story.

Please give your age/sex/location and state if you wish to be contacted eventually - should we choose to elaborate further on one of your lessons and want to ask you for more details/clearance prior to any inclusion in publishable format. Regrettably there is no payment for submissions.

You can post a comment here with suggestions or write to: jajonesy@hotmail.co.uk
(and no, that's not Lisa's real name, of course not)

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