Congrats and thank you for stepping up as the cheif editor for the SW Blog. I look forward to the road ahead.
I appreciate you sharing your wrestling with the various creative mediums. I have similar struggles too. I prefer telling someone a story over conversation than writing it down by myself. And many of the project ideas I have are not as suitable for a book, but rather as film and graphic novels and music concept records. Yet, writing is a means to these ends. I've been processing this struggle and journey to sort this out in my Substack letters to a marginal level of success. For some reason writing it out and pressing the 'publish' button challenges my assumptions and fears. It's confessional. Perhaps it could aid you as well.
Anyway, I love reading your posts and articles. I beg of you to continue them. I'll forgive you if you don't, begrudgingly.
Thank you so much for your kind words… Yes, I’m following your struggles and look forward to see what comes of them. I haven’t read your fiction, so I can’t commend you on that path, but I can add to the other voices complimenting your interviewing skills. You’re quite good at that.
About donations: Thank you for the support! Yeah, the Substack pledge thing is there just to let authors who don’t charge subscription fees know that they could if they wanted. Your pledge (much appreciated!) doesn’t turn into a transaction unless I erect a paywall, which I’m not planning on doing. It is true I can use the financial support, if only to justify my existence to my family. For that cause I have a Donate button (via PayPal) on my website, https://www.cormacjones.com/.
About Dante: I would have to revisit the Divine Comedy to nail down what I really think of it. That would be an important thing for me to do, but where is the time? I once was planning a series of five screenplays the third of which would have had a strong Dante influence, but I never finished the first. Maybe if that’s not my path to revisiting Dante, another one will appear. I would relish the opportunity, especially looking at his theology in the context of Scholasticism; I think that could be very helpful for me.
Oh, it'd be impossible for me to imagine those conversations outside the context of the script, and the context of the script minimizes the actual philosophical and theological content, as Fr. Benjamin is more concerned to use it as a means of communication with the person he's talking to. I don't know, it's something I'll keep in the back of my mind.
I am excited! I’m sorry I gave the impression that I’m not as I think aloud through the challenges at hand with my ongoing tasks and upcoming assignment. I’m the type that can sit alone and think endlessly. My mind palace is simply incredible; I could spend all my time there and never feel like I was missing something. But I know that I would be missing something. Becoming editor at the SW is the next step in the years-in-the-works socialization of an introvert, which I trust is for the best.
I’m honored to be thought of as family. I have not read Mind of the Maker, nor anything by Sayers. She’s in good company. I haven’t read C.S. Lewis either, for that matter. I just wasn’t raised right, I tell you.
Congrats and thank you for stepping up as the cheif editor for the SW Blog. I look forward to the road ahead.
I appreciate you sharing your wrestling with the various creative mediums. I have similar struggles too. I prefer telling someone a story over conversation than writing it down by myself. And many of the project ideas I have are not as suitable for a book, but rather as film and graphic novels and music concept records. Yet, writing is a means to these ends. I've been processing this struggle and journey to sort this out in my Substack letters to a marginal level of success. For some reason writing it out and pressing the 'publish' button challenges my assumptions and fears. It's confessional. Perhaps it could aid you as well.
Anyway, I love reading your posts and articles. I beg of you to continue them. I'll forgive you if you don't, begrudgingly.
Thank you so much for your kind words… Yes, I’m following your struggles and look forward to see what comes of them. I haven’t read your fiction, so I can’t commend you on that path, but I can add to the other voices complimenting your interviewing skills. You’re quite good at that.
I was hoping to support you financially, yet somehow my pledge didn’t link to a donation page. Did I miss something?
About donations: Thank you for the support! Yeah, the Substack pledge thing is there just to let authors who don’t charge subscription fees know that they could if they wanted. Your pledge (much appreciated!) doesn’t turn into a transaction unless I erect a paywall, which I’m not planning on doing. It is true I can use the financial support, if only to justify my existence to my family. For that cause I have a Donate button (via PayPal) on my website, https://www.cormacjones.com/.
About Dante: I would have to revisit the Divine Comedy to nail down what I really think of it. That would be an important thing for me to do, but where is the time? I once was planning a series of five screenplays the third of which would have had a strong Dante influence, but I never finished the first. Maybe if that’s not my path to revisiting Dante, another one will appear. I would relish the opportunity, especially looking at his theology in the context of Scholasticism; I think that could be very helpful for me.
I’d be quite interested in reading these conversations with Fr. Benjamin, a collection of interactions sounds like a fun project.
Oh, it'd be impossible for me to imagine those conversations outside the context of the script, and the context of the script minimizes the actual philosophical and theological content, as Fr. Benjamin is more concerned to use it as a means of communication with the person he's talking to. I don't know, it's something I'll keep in the back of my mind.
I am excited! I’m sorry I gave the impression that I’m not as I think aloud through the challenges at hand with my ongoing tasks and upcoming assignment. I’m the type that can sit alone and think endlessly. My mind palace is simply incredible; I could spend all my time there and never feel like I was missing something. But I know that I would be missing something. Becoming editor at the SW is the next step in the years-in-the-works socialization of an introvert, which I trust is for the best.
I’m honored to be thought of as family. I have not read Mind of the Maker, nor anything by Sayers. She’s in good company. I haven’t read C.S. Lewis either, for that matter. I just wasn’t raised right, I tell you.