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I just updated the blog so that people can comment without having to log in using a google account. I trust that my followers and any other readers can be mature when they are sending comments. If they can't be, then I will turn it off. So don't abuse this priviledge.



The image of Nikabrik will serve as my warning picture (think of it as a seal) unless it's being used in posts about my fics.



No More Summer Vacation

Summer vacation is drawing to its close now. I must say, this summer has been rather cruddy. Though the birthday weekend was lots of fun. (That's right folks, my birthday was last week.)

In the mean time, I'm going to give you the low down so that you know what to expect and what not expect.

First, don't expect updates to come frequently. This includes not only my blog, but also my stories. I'll probably be lucky if I can update a story a couple of times a month, if that. I may get luckier with the blog.

For my TLCer friends, don't expect me to be on the chat so much anymore. In order to make more time for writing, I may just have to cut my TLC chat time. You'll probably more likely see me on the weekends.

Let's see, what else is there...

If you do see an update on my stories, it'll more than likely be my Narnia falling to Telmar fic. If not, then my story that talks about how Caspian and Liliandil came to fall in love and how Caspian finally got over his romantical love for Susan.

I wasn't sure, but if you guys wished, but I could throw in a chapter study for each of the chapters of my fics. In it, I can provide you with some good background information on the characters and settings and such that you may not get in the regular story. But again, I'll leave that up to you.

Some of you were wondering how I came up with the names for some of my characters. I was thinking about doing a post that explained where I got them. I'm not certain when I'll get a blog post of that done, but I think I will eventually.

I may- no scratch that- I will put up some new one-shots here and there on occasion. I already got a Narnia songfic featuring Michael W. Smith's song "This Is Your Time" in the making. And I plan on redoing my "This Is Home" Narnia songfic shortly.

My Star Wars fic The Star Is Falling will probably be placed back up once I do some major editing work on it. This includes taking out the poor morality and replacing it with a better kind. It also means getting a more constant idea of where I'm going to go with that fic. I had several different directions I wanted to go. But with this fic, I needed two. (Considering that there is always two different endings to this series.)

Any other fics that I have up that aren't complete will be put on haitus until further notice.

My Narnia/His Dark Materials fic that I'm working on with Anya and Book will be coming around hopefully.

No other new multi-chapter fics will be posted until I got the ones I'm currently working on done.

When I finish reading any books, I will put a review up for you to check out. So don't worry about that.

And I will post updates in my life if I feel that they are worth mentioning.

There we go. You now know what's going to basically take place during the next nine months. We have a long road ahead of us. I know I do, cause this year is the year of many changes for me. I'm sure some of you do as well. Let's all pray that we all have a safe school year this year. (Or a good year in general.)



Yes, it is the leprechaun again. What can I say, I like him. :P














Wishing you good fortune,

WriterFreak

Liebster Award

"The goal of the award is to spotlight up and coming bloggers who currently have less than 200 followers. The rules of the award are:

1. Thank the giver and link back to the blogger who gave it to you.

2. Reveal your top 5 picks and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog.

3. Copy and paste the award on your blog.

4. Have faith that your followers will spread the love to other bloggers.

 5. And most of all - have fun!"

 

Isn't this cool guys? I can't believe I got nominated for such an award. This is very cool, very cool. I would just like to thank my friend from Elizabeth L.W. for mentioning me. She runs a blog called  ImaginationalWonders. Thanks again Elizabeth.

 

Now then, here are my top 5 picks. This is going to be hard because I follow nearly thirteen or some number of people like that.

 

1. The Writings of An Aspiring Authoress. This is my friend Autumn Elizabeth's blog. She is the one who first introduced me to blogspot. She's also a friend on TLC, and the one who I fondly call my "Sister-from-another-mother."  It's mostly her writing on here. Though there are a few things such as life thrown in here and there.

 

2. Define Wierd. This is my friend Hudson's blog. He is one of my friends on TLC. He and I first started becoming friends when we both discovered we had a taste for rap artists such as Eminem. His blog is mostly about his photography. Check him out, this guy is an amazing photographer. The pictures will not disappoint.

 

3. Musings of a Hedgepickle. This is my friend Ajnos's blog. She is the local TLC lady hedgehog. She is training to become a linguist. She and I often have interesting conversations involving linguistics. (Considering the fact that she and I are into the subject.) Her blog is mostly about her projects she's working on and such. Do check her blog out!

 

4. Thoughts From the Fourth Estate. This is my friend Will's blog. He is a member of the TLC (I won't reveal who he is because I don't want to give stalkers his identity). I will say this, he and I have grown to become friends from the moment he and I first met on the TLC chat. We couldn't be more different though. Some of our political/moral views will clash at times. And sometimes, he and I will have debates about that. Overall though, he is a good friend and I am glad to know him. This is his political/journalistic blog. So expect a lot of that to be there.

 

5 . The Clashing of Swords. This is my fellow TLCer Shieldmaiden's blog. She is a little philosopher as I like to refer to her. Though she's rather young, I have a feeling she will grow to become a good thinker. As you can guess, her blog mostly deals with philosophy. And some of the topics she talks about are very interesting. If you look at her first post, you will find that I am mentioned in it. (This was a result of a philosophical discussion she and I had once.)

 

Well there you go folks. Those are my top 5 picks. Hope you all enjoy the blogs.

 

God bless,

WriterFreak

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Effects Of Conversion On My Stories

Great news everyone. On Saturday I managed to tell my brother and a few friends I was converting to Catholicism. They were accepting of it. My one friend was rather surprised though because he remembers how nasty I use to be towards Catholics. When I was younger I use to call Catholics every name in the book. I use to say that they sucked. I use to say that they were all greedy. I always use to say that every single Catholic priest was a child molester. Geez...now you know how evil I use to be don't you? Thing is, that's only the beginning. Needless to say, my friends were surprised. One of my other friends also said, "Dang, that's a significant change!" I got to say, I agree with him.

With my progress out of the way, I'm going to discuss something regarding my stories. I'm not sure if this has ever crossed any of your minds, but I thought, "I wonder what my readers think will happen to my stories now that I am a Catholic?" Some of you may expect that there wouldn't be a significant change. That is quite contrary. There's such a significant change that I can barely describe it. But I'll try anyway.

Two of my major fics I deleted as a result of my conversion to Catholicism. They are:

The Star Is Falling- a Star Wars fanfiction that was based in the Force Unleashed universe. It was my idea of what the third story would be like. I decided to delete it because of the mentioning of Galen and Juno having sex before marriage being portrayed in a positive light. (Which I didn't agree with deep down anyway but I was going through a stage of rebellion during the time I was writing it.) While I do plan on putting this story back up, I'm not sure when.

The Lion's Materials- A Narnia/His Dark Materials (a.k.a Golden Compass) crossover. Now that I'm a Catholic, whenever I read through that I can't help but feel sick. Especially because of my derailing of the Catholic faith and making it sound like a repressive association seeking to control the entire world. I no longer believe this. Thus, this is the reason why I deleted it. Besides, I found it was horribly written anyway.

These stories won't be effected as much by my conversion:

The Fall of Narnia- I thank God that I didn't a specific denomination in mind when I was plotting this story. While Henry's conversion to Christianity wasn't intended to be the main focus of the story at first, it became such as soon as I started writing. I'm glad that I didn't keep a specific denomination in mind. This way, I can have Henry start his road down to Catholicism.

That Was Romance, This Is True Love- A telling of how Caspian and Liliandil fell in love after the movie-verse VDT and how Caspian abandoned his love for Susan. This wasn't really suppose to be a major Christian piece either, but you can definitely see the Christian elements behind it.

Narnia Characters Speak Out- There shouldn't be much of an effect on this story either. Though I'm going to figure out a reason why there are some Protestants in Aslan's Country. (As a member of the Catholic Church, I do not deny we believe that it is our faith and our good deeds that get us to Heaven.  We do not claim that Protestants, Orthodox, and non-denominationals won't make it to Heaven. But we don't claim that they do either.) Along with a few people who were Pagans. Though I don't think this should be too hard.

Other:

The Final Showdown- Another Narnia/His Dark Material crossover that I'm co-writing with BookObsesserNumberOne and Anya. To be honest, I'm not too sure where this is going to go now that I am a Catholic. I'm hoping that we can at least make it to where we can finish it. After that, I don't plan on doing any Narnia/His Dark Material crossovers. In fact, I'm not even certain if I'll have anything to do with His Dark Materials anymore beens because that story is relatively anti-Catholic (though it targets all religion in general, it focuses on Catholicism).

Just thought I let you know on the status of my stories.

God bless,

WriterFreak

Annoyed

This is just going to be a quick blog post. What's it about? It's about why I'm kind of annoyed. Why you may ask? I can't find a site that will give me the readings of Mass. Because I won't be able to get to a Catholic church for a while yet, I'm going to have to look at the Mass readings online. Thing is, my internet won't let me access any of the suggestions that come up on the Google search that I did. Needless to say, yes, I'm a little annoyed and ticked off. Internet Explorer is horrible. Ah well, I'll have to make do with it. I'm going to go and check out the Catholic Answers Forum (which has been suggested to me by Elizabeth and the Catholic apologist I've been talking to) to see if there's anything about Mass on there.

All I can say though is that I can't wait until I can get my own car and a license. That way if I need to go to the Catholic church I can just drive on over myself. Still have yet to tell my parents about my conversion, but I'll tell them soon enough. So far my sister knows. And today I was thinking about telling my brother. Maybe in a couple of days I'll tell my mother, then finally my father. So far my father is the only one with the license, but because he's Baptist, I don't think he'll be taking me anywhere near a Catholic church. Hopefully my mom will be able to help me out when she finally gets her license. At least until I can get my own. Prayers please.

God bless,

WriterFreak

The Difficult Choice

Today I made one of the most difficult choices I have made in my life. No doubt there will be more yet to come, especially with this whole divorce issue, but this one earns the "My Most Difficult Decision of the Month" Award. Not only that, but it has been one of the most difficult decisions in my life.

Those of you who know, you know that I said I finally had enough of being a non-denominational Christian. I want you all to read carefully. There is nothing much fun about being non-denominational. In fact, there's nothing really all that great about it. I know some of you are going to disagree with me, because some of you are non-denominational. Fine, I will respect that. God gave us free will, and you are making it on your own decisions on your own free will. (At least I hope you are.) But I ask that you also respect my ability to choose. You don't have to agree with it. Heck you don't even need to like it. But this is my choice, my decision, my right. And if I'm wrong, then I'm wrong. Simple as that. And just before you get any ideas. I have been researching constantly on this subect. I have prayed constantly. Thought constantly. Read constantly. In the end, I made this decision. You don't need to respect my choice, just respect the fact that this is what I choose. If not, then I don't know what to tell you. You're going to have to unfollow my blog or something. Or you'll have to leave my stories alone. Or you'll have to avoid me in general.

I want those of you who are going to continue to follow this blog to know that I am grateful. You are loyal to me. Clearly you are my truest fans, and in some cases, my truest friends. I want to thank you for that.

Now then, I'll tell you about the choice.

On August 2nd, I came to the realization that I couldn't continue being non-denominational. Not the way I was anyway. The best way to describe my pain and such is by using a metaphor. I know most (if not all) of you  have at least read the Narnia books. So you know what I mean when I talk about the Silver Chair and how I was constantly clinging to it. And sometimes I was acting like Puddleglum, proclaiming, "I will believe in Aslan even if there is no Aslan." To simply put it, I was constantly going through a trial of doubt, reconcilation, and doubt again. It was a cycle that seemed to never end. One that wouldn't stop since I left the Baptist church that I had left months ago. It was then I realized it was because I had the lack of the support system and teaching of a church to help guide me. And it was then I realized that being non-denominational wasn't the answer, at least not the kind of answer I'm looking for.

So after much praying, I felt that same feeling I felt that day I nearly committed suicide. Clearly God heard my prayers, and He sent this feeling to guide me. It was by this feeling I was able to narrow down my options of denominations between the Church of England and the Catholic church. However, it was between these two different denominations I found myself stuck. Mostly because the two of them are so similar and so alike in theology that I didn't know what to think. Admittedly, I faltered, hesitated, whichever word you like to use. I was stuck between these two denominations. I didn't know which one to choose.

This was what led me to do a lot of searching. This included lots of research. I had to pour questions out to a Catholic apologist. And I also asked a friend about Anglicanism (the alternative name for the Church of England.) Some could argue and say I didn't give Anglicanism a proper chance because I didn't ask lots of questions, but the reality is I didn't need to. My friend sent me a link which told me all (if not most) of the doctrines that were taught in the Church of England (not the Epicospal one). But in true reality, I don't think it would have mattered. The Feeling seemed to be leading me in the right direction anyway. I just came to a part that seemed like a fork in the road. But the way was revealed to me by my prayers.

I'm pretty sure you have probably guessed it by now, but I am going to tell you anyway. The denomination that I decided to join was Catholicism. I will say this, it's going to be difficult for me. I'm going to have reorganize some of my views, and get use to the rituals, and the practices and such. But I will go through with it. Somehow, some way, I'm going to succeed. It's going to be even more difficult considering the fact that my father is a Baptist, and no doubt he will disagree with these new views. But I will manage. I have faced suicide and thousands of other obstacles in my lifetime. I know with God's help I'm going to make it through this as well.

Well there you go, you now know the difficult choice I had to make this month. You may now go ahead and do what you see fit. If you feel you should quit following my blog, by all means, go ahead. If you feel you will follow my blog regardless of what I believe, than that's fine too. All I ask is that you please accept the fact that I have made my choice. I have researched, I have prayed, I have followed the Feeling. Not only that, but I kept God in my sights.

May God keep you,

WriterFreak

Current Reading 5 & 6

Alright, another short break from "The Fall of Narnia" fic in order to talk about what I have finished reading! My grandmother bought me a book filled with C. S. Lewis's non-fiction Signature Classics. This includes his books, Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Problem of Pain, The Abolition of Man, Miracles, and A Grief Observed.  I have recently finished reading Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters.

Mere Christianity is basically a collection of essays that Lewis wrote which uses common sense to point out the existence of God. In this book he discusses various issues having to do with the Christian faith. This includes the Good Deeds vs. Faith Alone that gets you to Heaven, the Separation of Church and State, Marriage, Sex, Divorce, Homosexuality is briefly mentioned in this, and other things as well.

What did I think of it? I thought it was pretty good. And it was mainly becuase of this book that I have been brought to accept the fact my ideas about theology are faulty. Lewis is also pretty convincing. And I believe that any man who is half convinced may find this helpful.

The Screwtape Letters is a book that Lewis wrote and dedicated to his friend J. R. R. Tolkien. In this books a series of letters written by a demon of high position named Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood, who is struggling in tempting a man. Here Screwtape talks about how to use family ties, pride, world events, friends, etc., in order to tempt the man into giving up God.

What did I think of it? Well to be honest, I found this series to be very convicting. Lewis manages to write an interesting work where we see how demons like to turn us away from God. And if you don't feel convicted in some way by the time you finish this, then I'm going to be honest, there's something wrong with you. This book has made me feel convicted in a great assortment of ways that I can't even begin to describe. And it has opened my mind and eyes to the reality of who I am. A very excellent read, a very excellent read.


Well there you go. The two latest books I have read and completed. Keep checking back every now and then to see what else I have been reading. And also, don't forget to watch out for my latest news about my fics.

May the Lion keep you,

WriterFreak

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