Recently, I have spent more time planning on which book to pursue next. Right now, my attention has been between writing a book on Meditations on the Lord’s Supper and a book on the presence of God. I have ideas for both, but neither has a firm book concept or outline yet. I am deciding this week which one to pursue first. I plan to publish both books within this year.
Until I can figure out which book to do, book writing itself is on the back burner right now. I have been spending most of my time on Daily Devos to produce in a devotional book sometime this year. I have roughly 50 devotionals to write. Then there’s the editing, formatting, and publishing of that book. Look for it within the first half of the year.
I am also focusing on writing blog posts. Like Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights when I was pastoring full-time, blog posts are on schedule days and come whether I’m ready for them or not. So, I have been focusing on getting ahead with my blog posts.
My new life group on The Spiritual Realm will be taking a lot of my focus away from solid book writing for February into the first week of April. I also get to prepare a sermon for February 26. I’m looking forward to preaching, my first and continuing love. All these projects are currently running over writing a book. But I’m still writing almost every day between blog posts, devotionals, and sermons.
One last project is preparing for the termination of my ministry site solidrock831.com. I am moving all the content from that website to this one. I hope to have that project done within the first half to three quarters of this year. We’ll see how that goes. Moving content is time-consuming. But it may be something I can do if I don’t have the desire to work on any of my other projects on certain days of the week. All these projects are going on at the same time. This is why I may put writing books on the back burner for a month or two.
I’d like to keep doing a little on all these projects. I am not good at prioritizing one project over another. My prioritization happens because time and circumstance forced me to choose one project over another. I tried at the beginning of the year to fix this flaw in my approach. So far, I’m doing the same thing I always do. So, I need to learn how to prioritize projects this year also. Tune in next Thursday for another Author News post.
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