When I was a missionary, my mission president had us all take a break from the work during the Christmas season to watch A Christmas Carol–any particular version, no matter. When I first came out it was only a couple of months before Christmas, so I was a little bit surprised with this rule–after all,… Continue reading The Christmas spirit
Tag: Spirituality
Crash course
Alright, I haven’t done any writing in my novel today. I admit it, and I admit that I have no excuse for it. I just didn’t do it. The reason that I didn’t do any writing (not the excuse) is that I’ve been way too busy checking out this series of fascinating economic presentations. These… Continue reading Crash course
General Conference and weekend progress (or lack thereof)
This weekend was General Conference. I watched most of the sessions from friends’ apartments here in the FLSR. While I enjoyed many of the speakers and caught all four sessions, I have to confess that I slept through a lot more of the talks than I should have. I’ll definitely download the mp3s and listen… Continue reading General Conference and weekend progress (or lack thereof)
Progress comes slowly
I feel like today was fairly productive. I finished all the homework that’s due tomorrow, put in three hours at the writing lab, went to all my classes, got up early, and now I’m going to bed relatively late, after writing for about two hours. However, I still wasn’t able to get all the writing… Continue reading Progress comes slowly
If I haven’t been blogging…
…it’s probably because I’ve been writing. So here’s a quick update before I do today’s 1k:
Why did I waste a perfectly good weekend?
This is going to be a quick rant because I need to get some sleep…
The Lost Colony to be submitted by May!
We had an interesting lecture today in English 318–Brandon explained the format of the final to us, and part of the final is that we actually submit something we’ve been writing to a professional publisher! So, now not only will I finish this novel by the end of the semester, but I’ll be sending it… Continue reading The Lost Colony to be submitted by May!
I’m starting to get to the really cool parts…
…in both of my stories. In The Lost Colony, Leila, who’s a native of this somewhat primitive civilization that doesn’t understand spacefaring, stows away on a shuttle and experiences space for the first time. Pretty cool! And in The Wormhole Paradigm, tension builds as they set off towards the planet, anticipating that the aliens will… Continue reading I’m starting to get to the really cool parts…
Get married in the temple…but just barely!
That’s the advice from Stephen L. Robinson, at least (author of Believing Christ and Following Christ–some of the best books that I’ve ever read on the subject of the Gospel that weren’t scripture). The other week, he gave quite possibly the most fascinating lecture I’ve heard all year–Paul the apostle on sex and marriage…