Thoughts on things

Ok. Theology is just going to have to wait. I’m still processing what it is I think, I think. I also have a lot of projects that seem to have suddenly descended upon me. Let’s see:

• Building this darn website…
  
  I haven’t exactly—finished, if you can’t tell. I have upgraded to the new version of Movable Type, but I still have to re-install the newly functional comments and put in email notification, and a dozen other odd things.

• Building someone else’s darn website…
  I was busy showing off my mine at work and a coworker asked me if I could set something up for his denomination’s prison outreach program. Hey, it’s not like I learned HTML yesterday. It was at least 2 weeks ago.

• Seminary…
  Yeah. As soon as I get my financial aid worked out, I’m back in.

• Fiction…
  This does not refer to all of the above. It refers to what’s below. I’ve been reading (and listening to) a lot of non-fiction lately, and it broke in me. I can’t take it anymore. I’m going to need some fiction or I’ll die. Part of this means I’ve stopped reading Wasted on Jesus, and started reading stuff like The Chronicles of Narnia instead. But it also means that my interest in nailing down my theology has waned and been replaced by some new creative writing projects. So here’s my new project:

I’m thinking about writing a novel.

Unfortunately, you won’t see it here. Oh, you may eventually, but I’m not going to immediately start putting up first chapters for review. I don’t want to put anything up until it’s finished porcelain. Right now I’m still looking for good quality clay. But here’s my background:

A few years ago, I was listening to a sermon on something or other, and the speaker was a pediatrician who explained that he became a doctor because of a TV show that he watched growing up that was the 1960’s equivalent of Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman. It made being a doctor into a powerful romantic image for him. Going out, being a hero, saving the day, that sort of thing. Then he said that he might have gone into ministry if there had been a show on called Bobby Connor: Texas Prophet.

Ever since then, that’s been ruminating in my spirit.

I’m thinking I could do that. I don’t mean that I could come up with scripts and production for a TV show, but I’d like to write a book (or series of books) where the main characters were a group of Christians. Perhaps a something like X-Men, where instead of “super powers” they would have different kinds of spiritual gifts.

I could do it. I know I can.

What I’d like to do is set the story in high school, perhaps starting as early as 9th or 10th grade. I’ve got some basic plot ideas worked out in my head, but nothing worth showing off yet. The problem is, if I’m going to do it, I want to do it right, and for that I need more than my own memories of growing up in the church. I take that line about “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy” pretty seriously.

So… If anyone is interested, I’d like to interview them. Please put a note up on the forum, or email me if you have that address. I’d put my email up on the site, but I’ve found that having traffic on a website and an email on the same website equals spam.

The next couple of days, if I get bored enough, I think I may put some of my own autobiographical stuff up just so I can hash through it for content (it has nothing to do with shameless egotism, really. J)

And with that, I’m off to church!

Author: KB French

Formerly many things, including theology student, mime, jr. high Latin teacher, and Army logistics officer. Currently in the National Guard, and employed as a civilian... somewhere View all posts by KB French