It’s been a long time, close to six months, since I’ve posted monthly accomplishments and goals in my writing endeavors. The combination of health setbacks and travel kept me distracted and busy, not necessarily on writing things. But now I’ve finished my post-heart-surgery cardio rehab, and I’ve finished the PT regimen prior to potential knee surgery.
So my schedule is temporarily lighter and I’m able to think about goals for the coming months. I won’t say much about accomplishments, but I have completed some goals during the past half-year. I finished the last few volumes of my eight-volume Bible study, A Walk Through Holy Week, and published the first four of them. Vol. 4 will go live on Amazon on May 6.
Aside from that, my writing accomplishments were mainly in terms of organization. I found lots of loose papers from past writing efforts, and organized them into a permanent way. I don’t think I have many more loose paper stashes about the house.
So what’s up for the next month? I actually plan to work on a non-commercial product. Over the last couple of years, I transcribed the letters from our years living in Saudi Arabia, with the intent of publishing them in book form for our family. I illustrated it with photos from those years, but only a few photos. Full illustration was always part of my plan.
KYIL – print cover new size – improved 02While I was laid up from strokes and operations and our daughter came to help out, I had her sort through photos from those years and select and scan those she thought would be good in the book. She got through about half of them. In Nov-Dec, I was able to get through the rest of them. I also went through all the scans, crop them, and name them, and store them in findable places on the computer. I figure we have twice the number of photos scanned and ready to use as the book can reasonably support.
Therefore, the book it ready for the work of loading photos and arranging them in the books. I think this work will go fairly quickly, as I did the same work for the book of letters for our Kuwait years. I hope to start on this perhaps by tomorrow, and have a finished product by the end of the month.
That’s my only established writing goal for the month. I’ll see how it goes.