Writing in 2017

This post makes me nervous. I am occasionally given over to hubris, all the more so when it concerns my meager intellectual gifts. But, to bring up again the Augustine quote from my post on reading, writing helps shape learning, helps to make it in the modern buzzword "stick." But my ambitions for writing exceed a running journal on whatever I'm reading at the time.

So my big writing plan for 2017 is to write a book. It looks stupid seeing that on a page. Who the hell am I to write a book? It's a good question and one I'll puzzle through as I burn the midnight oil, fueled by Red Bull and regret, and try to piece together something that can with generosity be called a book.

The book is on obedience and submission as the key to happiness. Popular topic, I know. Prepare a seat for me please, Oprah. I'll be using various philosophers, but mostly Scripture and Paradise Lost. I'm under no illusion that this will be a wild seller or bring me lasting fame or allow me to afford a new car when my Expedition with 205,000 miles finally craps out. But I need to do this; I'll regret it if I don't. So there.

As far as the blog goes, my goals is to do 100 posts in 2017 or roughly two per week. It's ambitious--especially given the expansion of my family coming in early February, but I think cultivating the habit of writing will lead to better writing, both for my book and this blog.