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The End is Nigh, or The Beginning of the Next Phase
As any of my long time readers can attest, my output as of late has increased substantially. Alone used to consist of one post a week, but lately it has climbed to the point of five or six a week. Part of the reason for the change is that it became my primary focus as opposed to a secondary project. Another part is that after I hit Part 50 I took a look at where I was with the story and where I wanted to go with it. Some vague ideas became clearer as I plotted out the story's path and made notes about changes I needed to make once I do the first re-write. Once I did all of that the story just poured out of me in a hurry, coming far faster than it has since I started it. The goal is to have the first draft finished by the end of the month. Once that has happened I will be taking a week off from working on it, then I will begin what promises to be the most brutal part of the project...the editing. As part of the editing process I will be going through all of the comments made on the individual posts. Once I've reviewed a post for comments I'll be deleting it from my blog. I don't know how quickly the process will go, but I can promise at least one post a day will be removed so at best the individual parts will be online for about three months, but they could all be gone in a couple of weeks. So what am I saying here? Well if you want to re-read the story from the beginning before you have to pay for it in book format you had better get started now. Oh, and tell a friend to come have a read too while you're at it.
So what else is going on? Well I decided that after the first 365 entries of my 100-day challenge I will be taking those offline too and putting them together as a novelette. I hadn't really thought about what I was going to do with it, but I like this idea. I mean seriously, wouldn't you pay a buck or two for the whole series in a nice little e-book format? At any rate that one will continue on in my blog even after the first year's worth has been removed.
Oh, remember some three weeks ago when I submitted a story for publication. Yeah...longest...three...weeks...ever. I still haven't heard anything back. No news means it hasn't been rejected, but it still drives me insane waiting to find out one way or another. I can handle rejection if it comes. I have another story in the works and a third idea coming behind it, but the wait...it burns.
Football season is upon us and I find myself in a curiously uncomfortable position. I have no channels that will allow me to watch football. Not one. As part of our ongoing attempts to save money so that some time in the next couple of years we can afford a house again we decided to ditch our cable/sattelite service and live off of the limited free channels from our apartment complex, supplimenting it with netflix and hulu plus. This solution has worked well for the most part, but I had not thought of football when I made the decision...now my Sundays shall be filled with tears, and not just because my Cardinals have been beaten.
I'm sure there are other updates I could be sharing right now, but this is all I can think of at the moment. Brain fry has set in. Maybe I'll share more later...if I remember...
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Man/Women After God’s Heart | Kurt’s Messages
Back when Kurt Warner was the quarterback for the St. Louis Rams I loved his story. A man who went from anonymity to the pinnacle of glory in one year's time. He took a team that had been struggling to find true success and led them to a Super Bowl victory. What I did not know about his story at the time was his strong Christian Faith. I was agnostic at best during that time and once I found out about how much he spoke about his belief I actually lost a little of my respect for the man and his talents. In 2001 I suffered a personal tragedy and I found my way towards God. It was a slow start and it was full of its ups and downs as my long time beliefs often clashed with my new found ones. I bounced through a couple of churches and a handful of pastors without ever really finding true belief. In 2007 I moved from Oregon to North Carolina for work. It was a leap of faith for me and my family. We had no friends or family in the area and we were giving up comfortable jobs and our home back in Oregon. Four months later I lost my job as the economy started its slide in ernest. We were lucky that my wife had found a good job a month before I lost mine and even more importantly we had found a church that we really liked. The year at the Christmas Eve mass I asked Jesus into my life. Something about that night had opened up a doorway in my hurt and I felt for the first time in years that everything was going to be okay and that there truly was someone (other than my wife and kids) out there who loved me, cared for me andhad given everything for me. I think part of what opened that door for me was watching Kurt Warner. I make it no surprise that I am a big Cardinals fan. I have more jerseys from players who aren't with the team anymore than I have jerseys for players who are still with the team. I remember watching Kurt taking part in a discussion on one of the local religious channels and loving the message he delivered. Then I got to see it in practice as the Cardinals made their epic run to the Superbowl that year. I watched Kurt cut a post-game interview short because he wanted to be with the players on both teams as they prayed in a circle on the field. Kurt is the kind of Christain I aspire to be. He is kind and loving and he leads by the example he sets which in my mind does more for Christianity than any fire and brimstone preacher could ever hope to accomplish. I follow Kurt Warner still in his post football career and he even managed to get me to vote for him on Dancing With the Stars. Below is a link to a blog most he released this morning. It is beautiful and inspiring and I hope you find joy in his words. Thank you Kurt Warner.
Man/Women After God’s Heart | Kurt’s Messages.
