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Christian | Husband | Father | Author of Travel By Star |

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What if Odysseus became a Wise Man?

What if Penelope journeyed with him?

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@OlympusMadeMe88 Followed you back. You should be able to get through now.

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In case you're interested, my first novel, Travel By Star, looks to be on sale. Not sure how long it'll last, but if you want to save a few bucks, see the replies. For my newer followers, I'm currently working on a follow up. Blessings to you all and thanks for being here!

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I have had a hard time sticking with writing since publishing.

Initially, I chalked it up to being tired. The five years prior to releasing Travel By Star saw an increasingly emotional series of life events: Two children marrying, two parents passing away after long fights with illness, losing our family dog, another child finishing college and stepping into adulthood, one moving out of state, wild swings at work wherein one moment I couldn't catch my breath to suddenly facing the prospect of job loss, all of this running through the pandemic, then finally spending this last year trying to find a better balance of writing and marketing while working 50-60 hours a week and tending to neglected relationships.

To cap it all off, I've had some ongoing health issues for the past nine months which have destroyed my sleep.

The last thing I want to sound like is a complainer... I'm just a little worn out, and maybe a little lost. I want to find my way back to purposeful writing and I really want to do right by all those who've been so supportive of my work.

I keep feeling like the Lord has been building me for something... what, I'm not sure, but I want to be ready for it, at least as much as possible. I want to honor God with my work. I want to serve well the people I love, and I want to get some real traction on this writing thing - not necessarily in sales, as I trust those will come - but in good words down on paper.

But it's a fight on all fronts these days and both my spirit and my strength remain elusive.

His grace is sufficient, I know. And, maybe He's telling me to let this go for awhile... again, I'm not sure. All I know is I'm tired of feeling sick and sick of feeling tired. Something needs to break this siege.

So, yeah, I would appreciate any prayers you could say on my behalf.

Thanks as always to everyone who's encouraged me here.

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@WillQuestions As I was saying...

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I’m going to write a deconstructed, reconstructed, meta narrative, Hallmark movie within a movie, reinvented as an unashamed love letter to proper nostalgia and gloriously subtexted Christianity.

With high elves from an ancient domain.

And a troll who lives under a bridge.

In an idealized 90s high school.

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@criseyde59 Prayers for all of this.

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@ztrussell Funny you mention that. I wrote a time travel story last year which touched on this very notion.

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"Oh, you beautiful babes, for whom we've travelled through time..."

Best pickup line ever.

Gen-Z could solve all its dating problems just by returning to the classics.

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Forgive me, Keanu Reeves, for saying you couldn’t do Shakespeare. I had only seen you in “Much Ado About Nothing”, and not “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.”

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@MDiskin Giving it everything I got.

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@brianmccoppin Rome has indeed fallen.

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@KingAriPress Almost exclusively... and then I forget them. 😅

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What if Odysseus became a Wise Man?

What if Penelope journeyed with him?

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@retrophisch I was so tired, I must've been slurring my words... 😂

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First coffee of any kind in three months. I will probably regret it, but it's a partly cloudy morning following a couple days of rain, it's October, it's Friday, and the mocha must have its moment.

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@ooana @thebasecreates @AuntyMatter This is excellent.

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@MiguelSmithBook @DaveBuzan Yep.

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“The Cutting Edge” landed at a time in my life when I was seriously thinking about writing as a career (I was also 17, and in the flush of relationship drama). The screenwriter was Tony Gilroy, who would go on to write 3.5 of the Bourne films, which are also hugely influential for me. The music and aesthetic are a bit dated, but the script is so solid and the actors have that rare chemistry that feels like no one else could play those roles.

I simply love this movie. Haven’t watched it in awhile, but I can still more or less quote the whole thing.

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@whodamoose I love that bowl.

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@J0hnADouglas I was working for McDonald's when this sandwich was introduced.

Career highlight.

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@grecutopia @LucyGrecu @AlliPAuthor @BradPauquette I come back to this one often... my biggest challenge these days is sustaining that sense of love and zeal.

"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might." (Ecclesiastes 9:10)

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@KingAriPress I tried... and I truly appreciate the encouragement. It's something I hope to build upon in the next book.

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Let's go with 50 after the author's death (or 50 beyond the last descendant's 18th birthday, if the author passed while having minor children). That's plenty of time for the children to establish and maintain a legacy and benefit from their creative inheritance, but avoids the inevitable corporate capture and the visionary declension of a third generation.

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@DuckieLouise That's good to know. I tried listening to their recordings of Augustine's Confessions, but the quality was pretty inconsistent.

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@annielcrawford In a related way, this is why an honest but charitable review is so helpful, even if one doesn't onboard every point.

Which is my way of saying thanks again.