About
Dear readers,
I have been journaling privately since I was eight years old. I started writing poetry at 12, short stories at 13, and I wrote a perfectly awful novel in my twentieth year.
As an older teen I “published” a few email newsletters of the comic sort, which were always popular but eventually went down amid flames of controversy (”Was it my kids you were talking about in that last mass-mail?” - “No, but I can’t prove it…”)
Blogging just seems like the natural extension to this line of developement. This is my third blog, and my first semi-anonymous one. It’s not dishonesty, it’s just the wariness that comes from realizing your name can pop up on the front page of Google if you say something unguarded and someone notices.
At some point you want to proceed to a position from which some people will sometimes see what you write. It’s a bit of a reality check.
So having readers is part of the purpose of this blog. It adds a dimmension to writing that I believe is healthy. This blog gives it an end place and allows it to become true communication.
In addition, I hope to be worthy of publishing someday, and keeping up this blog is helping me to improve my writing skills with regular new work as well as to polish some of my old stories, poems, and essays.
Recently, my husband Scottie has been contributing guest essays.
I am an Orthodox Christian chatecumen; a wife, mother, and writer. I’m young (think mid-twenties), so look on me tolerantly if I seem overenthusiastic or a little inconsistent at times. I’m still trying to figure out the world and my place in it.
And always, many thanks for stopping by.
Yours sincerely,
AR
November In My Soul said,
February 28, 2008 at 4:21 pm
AR,
I started my blog for many of the same reasons you state here. It is a good platform to air out some of your ideas and put your writing before a (hopefully) larger audience.
I also come from a Baptist background and converted to Orthodoxy. There are many of seeking answers and finding them in the authority, the wisdom, the truth that can only be found in The Orthodox Church.
I will add your blog to my list of favorites and check in regularly. In the most recent entries on my blog there are only phoos with little writing, but if you go back into the archives you will find a lot of written material. Some you may even find interesting.
Finally, a blog can become a cruel taskmaster.
November In My Soul said,
February 28, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Also, there is a post in my blog somewhere concerning “Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God.”
AR said,
February 28, 2008 at 6:33 pm
A cruel task-master indeed! Well I know that truth. This is my third blog. Every time I feel that I can no longer sustain the demands of one I shut it down and start another when I feel ready again. This one seems to be going better as I’m holding it in check so far.
Thanks for stopping by and introducing yourself.
fatherstephen said,
March 21, 2008 at 3:02 pm
AR,
I’ve just added you to my blogroll at Glory to God for All Things - and apologize for not having done so earlier. Just my laziness. My wife is especially fond of your blog and constantly points out things here to me. Thank you for always good comments on GGAT and the kindness you practice on your blog. Good writing. God bless!
AR said,
March 25, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Father, I’m flabbergasted. Thank you.
Joel said,
April 7, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Ha. I just saw Pub Rants on your blogroll. I just queried her.
AR said,
April 7, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Joel! What an appropriate profile picture.
Yes, Ms. Nelson is rather remarkable. Good luck with your query. Which reminds me: it’s very good to see a Christian writer trying to get published in the real book market.
U’d be my ‘blogroll sixth’ if not for a promise I once made.