Putting Pen to Paper

Okay, it's been awhile since my last post. I've been busy lately with a full time job, along with my Community Development class. Also, I've started another rather ambitious project.

I wrote a book last year, and would gladly have posted a picture of the front cover on the blog, but I couldn't figure out how to work the scanner. It was a short book, just over a hundred pages. I wrote it not to sell it, but just to see if I really could write a book. Only a few friends and family members have read it.

I had made a couple of attempts at writing before, but had not succeeded until last year. I wrote my book, Fighting Fire With Colour, as a sequel to this book. I didn't like how it ended, so I decided to write a sequel. That's basically it.

But my next book is going to be quite a bit different. I am writing from scratch this time and intend to have a purpose. I originally intended to talk about the idea of Truth, and what it means when grounded in a Biblical worldview, but I think it has moved beyond that. It will be fiction and will be set up in a similar style to Stephen King's novel "Hearts in Atlantis", with the novel taking place over various stages in the lives of more than one protagonist.

I do not yet have a title.

Okay, I've managed to distract myself from my homework a little longer. I've got to get back to my Community Development homework.

It really is a great class. I sometimes think of how rich we are in the West, and how we can often fall into the trap of thinking we are entitled to material wealth. But most of the world - more than a billion people in fact - live on less than a dollar a day. If you want something to make you passionate about helping the poor, this might do it. Seriously. This might just be the best cartoon ever made.

Until next time...