I don’t know what came over me. Last Friday was April 1st. That was my day to write out my progress for March and goals for April. I had something on my mind for last Friday, however, and went with that, not even remembering what I had planned for that day. So here is last Friday’s post, being written on Tuesday April 5th. I’ll give progress through today.

• Finish pulling my research notes for the church Centennial book together into a format and organization that will make the job of a future researcher easier. I made a good start on this, but didn’t finish, and will include it in April’s goals. I feel so much better about it, however. The notes are much better organized.
• Continue to shepherd the church Centennial book to publication. …Almost certainly this will go to the printer in March. This did go to the printer in March and production is underway. The books are scheduled to be ready by the end of this week. The church is thinking for a May release.
• Continue to plug along on There’s No Such Thing As Time Travel. I’ll finish going through it this last time, getting critique on two more chapters, while waiting on beta readers. I’m not sure of the timing of the cover, but should know this week. Not much change in status. Still waiting on beta readers. I did meet with the cover designer. We worked through her drafts, selected the one to use for the final, and came up with the design that looks good to both of us. I haven’t heard from her since that meeting, but I assume she’s making progress. Meanwhile, I’ll continue to run chapters past the critique group until the cover is ready. At that point I’ll publish, whether I have beta reader feedback or not.
• Make good progress on the Last Supper Bible study. I’d like to finish three more chapters in March. I accomplished this! I have fallen into a rhythm of writing, switching off between the two. I’ll have a blog post about that before long. This stands at approximately 28,000 words, a little more than half done.
• Begin work on a Gethsemane Bible study. Since I’ll be teaching it beginning next Sunday, I hope to make my notes this time in publishable format, being essentially done with it by the time the study ends. And this goal was met as well! Today (4/5/2022) I finished chapter 5 (of 7 chapters), at 29,000 words. That doesn’t mean I’m 5/7th done, however. This will need lots of editing, as will the one from last year.
• Attend writers groups. I expect this will be three online and three in-person meetings.  Done, except one on-line meeting wound up being cancelled.
• Blog twice a week on Monday and Friday. And I did this, not missing a blogging day.
• …revamp the “Available Works” page on my website. I made a small beginning on this in February, and would like to make significant progress on it in March. I did some of this, though actually not until April. I’m creating sub-pages for my published works, making the whole thing more organized and, I hope, easier for someone to go through. I wish I had finished, but I’m very, very happy with the progress made.

So, now the goals for April. It will be a shorter month for goals, given that I’m going this late.

• More work on those pesky research notes for the church Centennial book. I don’t know that I’ll worry about whether I finish it or not. Another hour or two will result in being close to done.
• Continue inching along with There’s No Such Thing As Time Travel. Not much for me to do but work with the cover creator and do a little more editing, by myself and with the critique group.
• Work on the two Bible studies hand-in-hand. I anticipate finishing the “guts” of the one for this year, on Gethsemane and Arrest. The one on the Last Supper I don’t expect to finish, but who knows? I’m actually ahead of where I expected to be by this time, so maybe I can get the “guts” of it done too.
• Attend writers groups.  Three will be in-person, and three on-line. I anticipate missing two however, due to a scheduled heart procedure that may require an overnight stay in the hospital.
• Blog twice a week, Mondays and Fridays. I’m not quite as well organized on this as I was in March, but I ought to be able to do it.
• Continue work on the “Available Works” part of my web site. Based on how much I have done, I ought to be able to do this.
• One irregular item: Work on and finish the presentation I’m scheduled to make to the Northwest Arkansas Letter Writers Society on May 10. I have what I want to say planned out, have begun writing it, and have pulled together some graphics for a power point presentation.

That’s a good amount of goals. I’ll be doing well if I accomplish them all, what with everything else going on.