John Marsden Writing Topic #470
What adult achievements of yours would most please your parents? What would most disappoint them?**
Adult achievements that would most please my parents:
-Graduating from uni
-Getting up and going to work everyday
-Trying to save money
-Being able to pay my bills all on my own
-Starting my own freelance writing business
-Being independent
Adult achievements that would most disappoint my parents:
-The kind of men I tend to attract, what I’m like when I’m dating someone and how I react when it ends
-The way I behave when commuting to and from work (especially at the train station)
-The little amount of money I have saved
**Reference: Marsden J 1998, Everything I Know About Writing, Pan Macmillan, Australia.