Welcome to logbook Friday!

A logbook once determined the distance a ship traveled within a certain amount of time. In this case, it's a systematic record of one artist's voyage through the rocky straits of earning his rice and beans.

I’ll be publishing a short post on Fridays with an image taken from Chris’ logbook, with a little commentary, and with his permission.

Since we’ve now come to the end of January, I thought I'd post a photo of his yearlong plan so far. (In my first post I showed completed planners for 2014 and 2015.)

The way it works is this: He fills in each pie-shaped section at the beginning of the month. It’s the big picture plan of what he hopes to accomplish. “I usually have something I’m writing, and something I’m drawing,” he says.

In January, he worked on his John Keats book (little figure on big arrow); typed a young adult manuscript from his handwritten notes; entered his accounts for the year; and finished up a few things on a book he wrote with Vera B. Williams called Home at Last.

He hasn't planned out all of February yet but said he will this weekend between British Premier League games.

Oh, and he throws taxes in there because he wants to know where they fall and it's easy to see on a circle.

As Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "To reach a port we must set sail."