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This is the first chapter of a work in progress called End of Days, which is written for older children about ten years old. Wilfred Bonnywhack was the son of a lumberjack. He was fourteen years old and could swing an ax like his father. What he did was to find a good tree— out […]

2) The First Aspect 2) Sanguine and Melancholic This is a portion of a larger essay which I hope to print once I have squared away some theological points. It is for the purpose of instructing men, especially those pursuing the consecration of their purity. Scroll to the bottom for previous segments. The Sanguine Woman […]

2) The First Aspect 1) Choleric and Phlegmatic This is a portion of a larger essay which I hope to print once I have squared away some theological points. It is for the purpose of instructing men, especially those pursuing the consecration of their purity. Scroll to the bottom for previous segments. The First Aspect […]

1) Introduction Up until recently, I had deserted this tearful vale, by a dry and pleasant little cavern which I found in the mountains of Tennessee. Long has God kept me and my family here, feeding us by the ravens, but now they have interrupted their visits for a goodly few months, and I am […]

5) Mechanics 2) Description I have broken a larger essay into segments to finish out this month. Description Description is a mechanic very much misunderstood and misused. Modern authors and aspiring authors complain of the long and tiresome employment of it by anybody writing before 1980 or 70. The older authors often employ it ineffectually […]

5) Mechanics: 1) Dialogue I have broken a large essay into segments to finish out this month. Let us look today at six mechanics of composition. As before, I am going to do so in a sort of freeform style, since I am still in the process of developing this course. These six are: dialogue, […]

1) Against Freedom, Tradition, and Conservatism The book What is Conservatism? written in the ’60s, contains a number of essays expounding Conservative thought. I am planning on going through them systematically in order to rebut the entireity of Conservative thought. This is the first and introductory essay written by the compiling editor himself. Against Freedom, Tradition, and […]

The Old Testament I have heard that the Old Testament is highly underappreciated within the Church. No doubt, this is mostly because the people who read Genesis (the most beautiful of all books of the Bible excepting perhaps the Gospel of John, more straightforward than that or the Canticle, accessible to every man of every […]

4) Rhythm Rhythm, I think, is a natural thing which most authors sense, or at least I do. Therefore, it can be hard to break it down into a technical approach as I have done previously. Let this be more in the manner of feeling it out, then, and maybe God shall have me structure […]

3) Ways to Begin a Story There are three major ways to begin a story, and none of them are very impressive. I have started many stories, many more than I have finished. In the early days, I was intoxicated with beginning, and if the scene was clever enough, or the premise profound, or the […]