Ah, July 1st falls on a Friday, my regular blogging day. Time to report progress in June and set some goals for July. First, how I did relative to my June goals:

• Work on my unfinished Bible study, A Walk Through Holy Week, Part 3. Although I still don’t have feedback on Part 4 (I know, this is another out-of-order situation with my writing), I want to at least finish this part. I should have worked more on this. I think I only spent one, or maybe two, writing sessions on it. Too many other things cropped up that held my interest and took my time.
• Take a long look at my writing and sales, and decide which of several major projects comes next. I have several directions to go. I don’t anticipate being able to actually start on my next project this month. It would be good, however, to finish the month at least knowing what it is. I did a little of this, but not as much as I planned. But as of now, I don’t know what my next major writing project will be.
• Finish the Centennial research notes. I pretty much finished this yesterday. All research papers on my desk are now in the three-ring binder and ready to take to the church. I have one document I want to print and add to it, which I hope to do before Sunday.
• Finish the updates to my website. That will include adding the new book to my list of publications. I finally did this. It only took a half hour, but it sure took me a long time to get to it.
• Attend two in-person writers groups, or three if you include the letter writers society. I’m not sure when I’ll be getting back to the on-line group. I attended two meetings of the Scribblers & Scribes, as well as one of the Village Writers & Poets. Had to miss the Letter Writers Society due to a medical procedure.
• Work on Tales Of A Vagabond. I’ll have to devote a post to this. I spent several sessions writing this new project—just enough to share with my critique group. Not sure how much I will add to it going forward. I’m thinking of it for Kindle Vella.

One thing that took up a fair amount of my writing time this month was working with letters. I pulled together, finally, the book of our family letters from our Kuwait years. I decided to pull together a book of the letters exchanged (mostly by e-mail) with a recently deceased friend. I finished the Kuwait book on June 15, and the letters with my friend on June 27. I’m also working on transcribing some letters from over ten years ago. I’ll perhaps have more to say about that in a month or two.

So, some goals for July. I need to scale back a little due to doing the grandparent thing and doing some traveling. Here’s what I think I can accomplish.

• Get back on the two Bible studies I’ve set aside to complete other things. I’d love to set a goal of finishing them by the end of the month, but I think that’s too ambitious. Let me instead say to work on them in at least 10 writing sessions.
• Attend three writers meetings, all in-person.
• Blog twice a week on Monday and Friday. Might be a challenge with the grandkids here.
• Work on the programming of the next Bible study. I’ll post about it at some point.

I think that’s all I’ll establish for goals. This month and the next just look to be very busy.