Fruitcake

29Jul09

Religion? Christian. No adjectives. I am not a conservative Christian, not an evangelical Christian, not a fundamentalist Christian, not a church-going Christian, not Catholic, Protestant or Orthodox, not a non-denominational Christian, not a Christian existentialist, not a Christian rationalist, but not irrational, and most of all, not especially religious. They’re all nice words but each [...]

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Tags: christianity, faith, jesus

Gabriel’s intro

26Jul09

I have a decent amount of writing for Gabriel in my initial draft and while I’m going to keep the plot, I think I’m going to throw most of the writing out. It’s just too… lame. Anyway here’s an attempt at the new first paragraph. When I’m an old man I will look back and [...]

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Gabriel: extreme meh

23Jul09

I haven’t written anything today or yesterday. I tried but got nowhere. What’s more, I read over everything I have of Gabriel’s narrative and you know what? Meh. I like the quest for roses bit I posted earlier, but just about everything else doesn’t grab me when I read it. I know what I want [...]

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A Special Treat

22Jul09

Some of you know I’ve long been planning a novel called Anathema, and have put it on hold because I want to get some short stories under my belt. Well, in elementary/middle school I got my first idea for that novel. Back then it was called “outcast.” It’s not the same story it is now, [...]

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Scraps #1

21Jul09

Some freewriting scraps from today  and yesterday. They’re stupid. Don’t read them. [fireflies] scrawled on a paper towel yesterday at a concert with Lauren Today we learned about fireflies in class. You wouldn’t believe the name of our stupid textbook. “The Enjoyable Wildlife Explorer for Youths. First of all, I hate anyone who uses the [...]

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A heartfelt essay (Part I)

19Jul09

Now for something different, unrelated to the piece of fiction I’ve been working on all this time. So, I set to answer the question of why am I Christian. If that bores you, then go ahead and skip to some of my more creative works instead. In any case it’s not for you, but for [...]

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Tags: apology, christianity, essay, faith, jesus

One

18Jul09

A somewhat presentable draft of chapter one, for which I think a better title may be, “Michael’s Many Loves.” Those of you who’ve been following have read most of this already, but now it’s all coming together. CHAPTER ONE // “Michael’s Many Loves” I have the habit of associating each season of the year with [...]

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Chapters. Eric.

16Jul09

I’ve come up with a (new) structure for the novella which seems like the most fitting. Hopefully, it should give me some focus. Here’s a tentative chapter list. I know basically what will happen in most of the chapters, and while I’ve written a lot of the material for them, none of them are complete. [...]

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Attempt #1: failure

15Jul09

This is what I meant to post yesterday. Internet was down. So I was trying to write that opening  I was talking about, and ended up with this. There are little shards in the winding of days and endless nooks of the world which are no secrets, but are too shy to make the acquaintence [...]

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The Elusive Perfect Opening

13Jul09

I could post any number of passages you haven’t read yet, but I’m not going to. Instead I will complain about a dilemma. I don’t know how to write the beginning of this story. I need to write something beautiful, something that gives at least the faintest hint of whatever compels me to write this [...]

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