I’m writing this on December 1st, for publishing on December 3rd. November wasn’t too bad of a month for writing progress, despite the time off for Thanksgiving activities with the family. Here’s how I did compared to the goals I set on November 1st.

1. Blog twice a week, on Monday and Friday. I believe I accomplished this without missing a regular posting day.
2. Attend my writers groups this month. That will be about six meetings if I make all of them. I attended all these meetings, a total of 5, two of which were on-line. 
3. Continue formatting work on the church Centennial book. With luck, and a few good hours, it will be finished when Dec 1 rolls around. I made progress on this. The essential formatting is done, though I’m still waiting on two outside contributions and a few more photos. Final formatting is impossible until I get those.
4. More work on The Forest Throne. I’ll even set a word goal on this: 10,000 words more than I have now. I had several good sessions of working on this. I didn’t quite make may word goal, however, adding 9,400 for the month. Still, that’s not bad.
5. Begin the process of revamping my website. I don’t really have that much to do on it, mainly have a new landing page and move my bio to its own page. I ought to be able to achieve that. This I also did. I spent a day or two on this: refamiliarizing myself with the menus for making changes; adding photos; moving and adding text. I now have a proper landing page, a proper bio page, and have updated almost everything on the site to be current. I still want to make a couple of changes to some of the pages but see no hurry in doing so.

So, what about December? It actually looks like a quiet month in the Todd household, so I hope to achieve much with my writing.

1. As always, blog twice a week on Mondays and Fridays.
2. As always, attend meetings (in person and on-line) of my writing groups. I’m going to drop one group, as I don’t think I’m contributing much to it and am not sure I agree with the direction they are going. I also suspect some meetings of the groups may be cancelled around Christmas.
3. Publish the short story I finished in September. Busyness has kept me from applying my mind to creating the cover and doing the publishing tasks. I’ve waited long enough; time to get it done.
4. Continue work on The Forest Throne. I’m at a point in the book where the writing is more difficult, since I’m dealing with speech and mannerisms spanning three different time eras. So I’m not going to set any word goal. Let me instead set a working-sessions goal. I want to work on it no less than 15 times by the end of the month.
5. Assuming I receive the two outside contributions I’m waiting on, and find the last photo or two I feel I’m missing, I’ll set a goal of completely finishing the formatting of this, 100 percent finish. That will mean that publishing tasks will happen in January.
6. Work on two Bible studies—or maybe three.  One I started back in February or March this year, and I have quite a bit done on it. I’d like to get that into publishing shape. Maybe this month I can dust it off, read where I left off and add some words. The other two are new, ones that I anticipate teaching next year. One I have outlined but not really developed. My goal for it is to get it fully developed and in teachable condition. The other is a “sequel” to the one from earlier this year. It’s not yet outlined, however. My goal for it for it for December is to get it fully outlined, and maybe start developing it a little.

I think I will leave it at that. That’s quite a bit to get done. Let’s see how I do on it.