The Write Goals 2026

I don’t write for fame or money. I get neither from my writing. And I probably never will. Which is good in a way because having a lack of many readers means I get to stay humble. I don’t get mobbed by adoring fans and I don’t get a swelled head from thinking I’m all that and a bag of tasty salt-free crunchy high-quality potato chips.

It also takes time and energy to read, research and assemble what I write. I sometimes neglect things to write articles. But here is what I am working on and would like to work on.

Even if I never finish these goals I think it is good to state my ideas and dreams as a writer.

It helps to move forward by coming to a realization about where my life is and where I want it to go.

I hope that my musings on my write idea will stir in you your ideas and dreams of writing and may it ask you this important question.

Where are you in your writing?

Finish up my history articles

I have written about every time period from the creation of the world up until the present time. I’m currently working on detailed Timelines from the 1970’s to the present. I have timelines with these years in my catalogue of blog entries but not super detailed ones on those specific decades individually. The one on the 70’s I’m working and gathering info for has journal entries about my young years authored by my mother who kept a journal/diary of my sisters as they grew up in the 60’s and how I grew up in the 70’s going into the 80’s.

July 28th, 1971 – Mark is getting real big- about 14lbs now. The other morning at 3:50 he decided it was time to get up & play. As he had learned to scream he though it would be fun & started screaming at the top of his lungs. He wasn’t crying- just playing.

Poor Laurie woke up frightened with the noise and was awake until 5:30. The same as Mark. Then he went to sleep again until 8 AM. What a little doll.

 Today at playground Patty won three prizes in the races- Blue ribbon in the running race- red ribbons in a 3 legged race & the still race. Laurie wouldn’t go so she didn’t get any this year. Mary has races tomorrow & is hoping to bring some ribbons home. (I think she will too). –Louise Wilson’s Diary

I also have a big focus on the year Star Wars came out.

1977

Soooo many interesting things happen that year.

I want to finish my timelines but am glad I have sort of finished them already. I want to complete them but want to move on to other things.

I thought of doing

55 Movies Released in my lifetime

50 Years Ago

November 21, 1976 – Rocky, the first in the film series opens. It becomes the highest-grossing film released in the year and goes on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

55 Songs Released in my lifetime.

50 Years Ago

“Play That Funky Music” – Wild Cherry

55 Books Released in my Lifetime.

50 Years Ago

The Father Christmas Letters 

I want to take my history timelines and turn it into an e-book.

I made a timeline of Science Fiction authors I’m not sure what to do with for the blog.

I want to write about every culture in the world. I started to do this and have a few almost complete. But am unsure if I want to take the time and energy to do it.

Faith Issues

Of course I want to write about faith related issues especially on how Christians treat one another. All Christians think they are allowed to demonize who differ in opinion then themselves. Even if someone is right in a certain position, they still need to treat the other person with a different perspective right or wrong with decency, dignity and respect.

All of you should be like-minded, sympathetic, loving toward one another, kindly disposed, and humble. Do not return evil for evil or insult for insult. Return a blessing instead. This you have been called to do, that you may receive a blessing as your inheritance. -1 Peter 3:8-9

Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth; but that which is good, to the edification of faith, that it may administer grace to the hearers. -Ephesians 4:9

I think the Gospel is pretty clear on this.

Vatican and the Saints

I would like to review Vatican documents and write reflections on them.

Christianity was not born from an idea, but through flesh. It was not born from an abstract concept, but through a womb, a body and a tomb. At its most authentic core, the Christian faith is historical, grounded in specific events, faces, gestures and words spoken in a particular language, era and environment. This is what archaeology uncovers and makes tangible. It reminds us that God chose to speak in a human language, to walk the earth and to inhabit places, houses, synagogues and streets.

Christian theology cannot be fully understood without understanding the places and material evidence that bear witness to the faith of the early centuries. It is no coincidence that the evangelist John opens his First Letter with a kind of sensory declaration: “What we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life” (1:1). In a sense, Christian archaeology is a faithful response to these words. It seeks to touch, see and hear the Word made flesh. This is done not to remain focused on what is visible, but to allow oneself to be led to the Mystery that lies hidden within.

By concentrating on the physical traces of faith, archeology educates us in a theology of the senses: a theology that knows how to see, touch, smell and listen. –Apostolic Letter of the Holy Father Pope Leo XIV on the importance of Archaeology on the occasion of the Centenary of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology (11 December 2025)

Very good stuff worth reflecting and commenting on.

New Saints are always on the rise and worth looking into their lives.

For example, the cause for canonization has been opened for Joe Wilson, a millennial Scot who died at the age of 17 and whose life has inspired an entire generation. Another millennial saint? The story of Joe Wilson, the young Scot who inspired a generation

Interviews

I want to read individual Catholic books both fiction and non-fiction and write reviews of them.

I would like to interview the authors themselves and put them as blog posts.

I would like to interview individual authors and ask them about their writing process. I did this several years ago. I asked the following questions below in the written interviews with a new added question I would ask.

1. Tell us something interesting about yourself.
2. What makes a good Catholic writer?
3.   What do you like about being a Catholic/Christian Writer?
4. What is the Main focus of your particular Writing or what do you like to write about?
5. How does your Catholic Faith influence your writing?
6. What’s your favorite article/Post/book/story you have written?
7. What is your favorite topic/subject to write about?
8. What Are you currently working on?
9. If you are named a Saint, what would you be named patron saint of?
10. Who is your favorite Living Writer?
11. If you could have lunch with any deceased writer who would it be, what would you eat and what would you talk about?
12. What else do you want people to know about anything.

• No slamming others
• No slamming church documents or councils
• Stay away from hot political issues
• Stay from negativity

Here are the results

Getting to Know Patheos Writers Part 1
Sunday June 28, 2020
13ᵗʰ Sunday in Ordinary Time

Tuesday June 30, 2020
The First Martyrs of the Church of Rome

Patheos Catholics Favorite Living Writers
Wednesday July 1, 2020

Patheos Catholics Favorite Deceased Writers
Thursday July 2, 2020

I would like to do another interview like this

Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious Interview | Mark Wilson

I also want more Guest writers in general.

CURRENT ISSUES

I want to create a post talking about the latest issues of the day.

If liberals want to be taken seriously about immigration, take what the bishops say about abortion seriously.

The bishops say this about abortion.

For the nation’s bishops, the continued injustice of abortion remains the “preeminent priority.” Preeminent does not mean “only.” We have deep concerns about many threats to human life and dignity in our society. But as Pope Francis teaches, we cannot stay silent when nearly a million unborn lives are being cast aside in our country year after year through abortion.

Abortion is a direct attack on life that also wounds the woman and undermines the family. It is not only a private matter, it raises troubling and fundamental questions of fraternity, solidarity, and inclusion in the human community. It is also a matter of social justice. We cannot ignore the reality that abortion rates are much higher among the poor and minorities, and that the procedure is regularly used to eliminate children who would be born with disabilities. –USCCB President’s Statement on the Inauguration of Joseph R. Biden, Jr., as 46th President of the United States of America | USCCB

If conservatives want to be taken seriously about abortion, take what the bishops say about immigration seriously.

The bishops say this about immigration

As pastors, we the bishops of the United States are bound to our people by ties of communion and compassion in Our Lord Jesus Christ. We are disturbed when we see among our people a climate of fear and anxiety around questions of profiling and immigration enforcement. We are saddened by the state of contemporary debate and the vilification of immigrants. We are concerned about the conditions in detention centers and the lack of access to pastoral care. We lament that some immigrants in the United States have arbitrarily lost their legal status. We are troubled by threats against the sanctity of houses of worship and the special nature of hospitals and schools. We are grieved when we meet parents who fear being detained when taking their children to school and when we try to console family members who have already been separated from their loved ones.

Despite obstacles and prejudices, generations of immigrants have made enormous contributions to the well-being of our nation. We as Catholic bishops love our country and pray for its peace and prosperity. For this very reason, we feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity. –U.S. Bishops Issue a “Special Message” on Immigration from Plenary Assembly in Baltimore | USCCB

Book/Music/Movie/TV Reviews

I’m currently watching or have watched a bunch a shows that I think I would like to comment on. I want to watch more shows I would like to comment on. This goes for music, books and movies as well.

Stranger Things 5 and Welcome to Derry both have supernatural and other worldly monsters who are able to manipulate fear in individuals and kids are the main protagonists. The army in both shows thinks they can contain and control forces beyond their ability to do so. Both shows have similar themes.

This looks like a book worth checking out.

I also want to explore independent Catholic authors of both fiction and non-fiction. Examples of these type of authors and both new and old can be explored here.

New Fiction And Literature Books 2023 – 2025 |
A List Of New Fiction And Literature Books That Were Published Between 1923 – 1925.

Other Things I want to do.

Start a podcast.

Make more Youtube videos like this.

Best of Catholic Social Media

Continue to make blog posts with snippets of the best Catholic and other writing and videos and podcasts out there.

There are plenty of people, alas, who appear to regard rudeness and incivility (to the right people, of course) as a hallmark of authenticity, strength, and right thinking.

It seems to me common for many people today, both Christian and otherwise, liberal and conservative, to be so enamored of the idea of strength and toughness that we scorn to be seen as gentle, pleasant, and agreeable. We wish to carry the swagger of strength and toughness in all situations—as if, you know, I’m being chill now, okay, but it doesn’t mean I’m not a badass ready at a moment’s notice to open a can of whoopass on all-y’all if provoked, so don’t start with me, hear? I’m willing to confront evil!

This is not the meekness that Jesus declared blessed, or that Sir Ector praised in Lancelot. And when we pejorate the term “nice,” it seems to me we risk reinforcing this attitude. -Steven D. Greydanus.-‘Jesus wasn’t nice’ and other half-truths

Shameless Popery

Joe looks at three takeaways from Rhett McLaughlin’s deconstruction as a Christian.

 If you associate Christianity too much with anything, and that can be a doctrine, that can also be things like a political view. If it’s not something that is actually central to Christianity, if it is your own idiosyncratic view and you say, everyone should agree with me on X, you can quickly associate Christianity with this heavy burden that I have to accept both Jesus Christ and your preferred political candidate. I’ve got to accept Jesus Christ and your political platform. I’ve got to accept Jesus Christ and your conspiracy theory or your view of the world on whatever issue. And so I think we do tremendous damage in this way. I quoted this earlier, but when he talks about how as Christians we’re supposed to have the fullness of truth, then if you see Christians living in non-reality, that’s not just an issue of faith.

I would like to continue to share Catholic Public Domain Material because it is now free for the people to use.

In every age it is the mission of the Church to go,
forth and win men’s souls for Christ.
And from the days of the first great Christian apologists, the laity
have had their share, large or small, in her missionary activity.

“In all times,” says Cardinal Newman,” the laity have been
the measure of the Catholic spirit.”

It is thus no new thing that the Catholic Evidence Guild sets out to do, but it does bring new methods to
bear upon the old problems. As in earthly warfare, so in spiritual, means of attack and defense change with
the changing circumstances of time and place ; the battle of the spirit must be fought ” with weapons unceasingly
renewed in the grasp of the unalterable Truth.”

I also want to write something about how Christians should believe in reasonable things, so they make the faith they are trying to convince people of is actually true is reasonable.

The question of the need for the Guild is inextricably bound up with the larger questions of the missionary
activity of the Church as a whole, and of the reaction upon each other of the Catholic and non-Catholic populations
of the country. It is thus no narrow enquiry, but one almost universal in its bearings.

–Handbook of the Catholic Evidence Guild (1922)

• Evolution can be compatible with Christianity.
• We landed on the moon.
• Dinosaurs were real.
• Abortion is killing a human life.
• Treating immigrants in the way Trump is, is contrary to the Gospel
• Anti-Semitism is not acceptable.
• Racism is not acceptable.
• The Pope is Catholic and not a heretic.

Other Things

Sign up for an account at Ancestery.com

Do more things so I have things to write about.

Read and watch more things so I have things to write about.

Write stories.

Publish Kristin’s book of poetry and join the RI authors association.

Connect and talk to the family and friends I have in my life.

Do more of the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

Have a more active and fruitful prayer life.

Keep my condo and car clean. I sometimes neglect it to write and because I’m tired and do other things in my life.

I’m sure there are more things I could add if I waited and thought about it.

I’m sure I could make this post more elegant and polished.

But sometimes you just need to go forward.

This blog post is going forward for me.