The #100 Things in 20 Minutes Challenge

Judey Kalchik kindly, or cruelly, set this unofficial challenge that she did a wonderful job on herself - you can see her results at the end of my mad, raving mumblings.

The challenge is basically to write 100 things in 20 minutes. I say basically as some kind of bravado type thing.

I love ridiculous challenges, and this one sounded right up my street. My mind is always on, and I easily think of 100 things in a very short time. Will I make the 20-minute mark with 100 things, or will I falter and look like a fool? I think I will look like a fool either way, but I'm happy enough with that.

100 Things in 20 Minutes - Here I go!

1. This is probably going to be harder than I initially thought.
2. But we will see how we get on.
3. I have Myriads of Troubles in the Old Blue Sea in my head right now, by Tom Rosenthal
4. He is this quirky, but brilliant folk singer-songwriter
5. His song Yolo is also really rather good
6. He became a bit of a viral sensation during lockdown because he wrote a song with his daughter called Dinosaurs in Love.
7. It was very sweet and cute
8. I was thinking of doing a poem that messes around with Right Here Waiting For You by Richard Marx
9. I did another, I can't remember the name of it right now
10. It's literally in my profile but I don't want to waste time/cheat and go and check
11. I also have done a strange version of Do You Wanna Build A Snowman from Frozen. That got more likes and reads than it probably deserved
12. One of my most read things was an experiment, to make a clickbait parody.
13. I am still quite pleased with it. I used Crayoin.com for crazy messed up images of all the celebs discussed in the listicle.
14. To answer Judey's question, yes, I urinate always when I clear my bowels.
15. I also look at my stats way too many times. It's a real problem
16. I just published my If Walls Could Talk piece, several months after the challenge ended. Go me.
17. I wonder if people will check it out, because I referenced it here.
18. Probably not because Vocal reckons it takes 20 minutes to read.
19. I am not sure if it does. I will maybe test that out later.
20. Speaking of reading. I am thinking of reading one or two of my poems and recording it.
21. I just need to get a different voice firsrt.
22. What does firsrt mean?
23. It sounds European to me
24. Is that a default that a lot of people use or is it just me "That sounds European?"
25. I am pleased with myself because I am just about finished work on a fence/enclosure thing in our side garden.
26. It's my first time doing anything like that - it's not pretty, but it's still standing and will keep the dogs safe
27. We have 2 adult dogs and 6 puppies at the moment
28. It is all types of chaos when they are awake
29. fortunately they sleep a lot
30. We sold puppy number 7 to my step-daughter
31. 31 at 12 minutes. I might be able to do this
32. I much prefer my 40s to my 20s or 30s
33. Even if I am dealing with the fallout of all the bad crap I did in those decades now
34. At least I am trying to deal with them
35. In our house, my wife and I often say #trying
36. I wonder who invented the hashtag and what it's original purpose was
37. Must look that up
38. That reminds me, I saw that there is a new challenge all about creating the origin story of an existing thing.
39. I will definitely be entering that
40. I have a few more ideas for the short and sweet challenge
41. And I really need to write my rap poetry rebuttal to Donna Renee the marshamallow hating fiend.
42. It's all in good humour, until my precious mallows of joy are threatened
43. I wonder if I should write more troll stories
44. I am also thinking about writing another writing guide thing
45. I wrote one a few months ago and got top story for it
46. I have a Writer's Guide to Writing Writer's Guide that has sat unpublished
47. I wonder if people would love to read that or they would just yawn??
48. I often think I am not as funny as I think I am
49. I always feel like the great pretender to the poetry malarky when I read stuff on Vocal
50. Everyone is so good on Vocal
51. I wonder how many things other people have liked on Vocal
52. You know when you can check Stories I've Liked? Mine is at 2000+ I think
53. My second-most-read poem is nearly at the 200 mark. It's sitting at 196.
54. That is fine, because that is an even number
55. But I really want it to be rounded up
56. I wonder if people will read Don't Give Up On What You Feel because I mentioned it
57. I really thought this would be harder
58. I am not as clever as I think I am sometimes
59. 6 minutes to go.
60. I have so many ideas in my head for poems, less so for fictional pieces
61. This is still a problem for me, as I really want to write short stories and a novel
62. But, I am stuck being a poet for now.
63. I am thinking that my Dark Acrostics book idea will become a Dark Poetry and Acrostics book
64. My first book will definitely be called Accidental Poet, I've decided
65. I still think that is the best way to describe me.
66. I do love poetry, but it still makes me a bit nose-twitchy
67. Creativity and procrastination go hand in hand - discuss.
68. I only recently found out that the Mississippi River is not the longest river in the US
69. Apparently Mark Twain is to blame
70. Isn't he always?
71. I am definitely counting those two
72. I loved Huck Finn as a kid and Tom Sawyer
73. Tom Sawyer by Rush is awesome too
74. Spirit of Radio just started in my mind's mp3 player
75. I wonder if Apple will invent a real mind-controlled mp3 player that plays inside your brain
76. I don't need one, so they can stick it where the sun doth shine
77. I said doth and I am not unhappy about that
78. I have never owned an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy thing
79. I have had smartphones, but for various reasons, don't have one at the moment
80. It is actually rather blissful
81. Not being able to be contacted is actually pure bliss
82. I really want a cabin in the woods, despite what horror films have taught me
83. Nice open fire, typewriter, some single malt and pastina in a cabin in the woods
84. At the bottom of our street is an entry point to a large hill and country park
85. It's beautiful
86. I remember climbing up it once and feeling very accomplished then discovered loads of people at the top
87. I took the hardest route possible.
88. Of course I did.
89. This challenge has gone very weird and I feel like anyone who got this far is a hero
90. Thank you for reading my mumblings
91. I want to do a post all about Paul Mumblings, but I'm afraid it will be too self-indulgent
92. I also want to do it because of that reason
93. Like explaining why I leave the comments I do.
94. Would anyone be interested in that?
95. I hope this actually gets read and some likes at least.
96. There. That's the timer done.
97. Didn't quite make it.
98. But, hey ho...was close
99. So very close
100. Thank you for reading!

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Here is the original post that inspired this one: