May was a strange month. The first four days of May I was on a road trip. After that I was faithful to the blog and active in writing. Some time went to genealogy work, consolidating research during the vacation. Writing wise, whatever goals I set at the beginning of May did not come to mind as I worked on various writing tasks. I wrote as the spirit moved me and as the need seemed, perhaps also following the path of least resistance. Now I’ll paste in the goals from the earlier post and see how I did.
1. Complete and submit the article to Internet Genealogy. I’m well along with it right now, and I don’t see this as a problem. I did this, turning it in a week early.
2. Find 3 to 5 more places to submit “Mom’s Letter”. The research is done; I just have to make copies and stuff envelopes. I did this, settling on three more places to send it to and doing so.
3. Blog 12 to 14 times. Did this with no problem.
4. Work on one appendix and one chapter note of the Harmony of the gospels. I did half of this. I have one appendix about 80 percent done. I did not, however, work on any passage notes.
5. Write one chapter in In Front of Fifty Thousand Screaming People. I worked on this–today, actually. I didn’t come close to finishing a chapter, but it felt good to get back to this.
6. Complete preparation for my two lesson Bible study, Good King, Bad King. It looks now that I won’t be teaching it in May, or any time soon. But I’ve done the research and development, and would like to have it ready on the shelf for some time in the future when I do teach it. Hmmm, did I do this? I got lots of stuff done, and I could probably teach it tomorrow if I had to, but I did not really “complete” it. Complete for teaching it myself, yes. But not complete for a publishable Bible study.
7. Write some closing notes to the Life on a Yo Yo Bible study, perhaps even some promotional items to make it a potentially publishable work, and decide what to do with it. Well, I failed at this one. I don’t think I even looked at LOAYY this month. I finished teaching it last month, leaving the final lesson to my co-teacher while I was gone. I guess I’ll put this down as a goal for next month.
See you tomorrow for some goal setting.
