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July 5, 2016
If you like nature photography...
Go take a peek at the pile of photos I uploaded to my Instagram this morning. I've been bouncing back and fourth between Colorado and Texas for the past year and finally found the Rocky Mountain beauty I've been looking for.
Be sure to follow me on Instagram, and also check out my other social media links on the bottom right of the screen for more content and shenanigans!
(Image: Summit Lake, Colorado.
Snowy cliff face reflected in clear lake surrounded by grass and yellow flowers)
Be sure to follow me on Instagram, and also check out my other social media links on the bottom right of the screen for more content and shenanigans!
(Image: Summit Lake, Colorado. Snowy cliff face reflected in clear lake surrounded by grass and yellow flowers)
July 4, 2016
Prologue and Chapter 1 are officially online!
We begin! The first chapter ofShadowchildis now available on Wattpad and Tumblr, ready to read.
I wondered what I should write my first blog post about, and decided, since this is the beginning, we should talk about beginnings. It’s cliché, but also an old truth, that the beginning of the story is the hardest part to write. It’s also true you should worry less about refining it until after you finish the rest of the story or at least until you’ve made considerable progress, enough to know you’...
I wondered what I should write my first blog post about, and decided, since this is the beginning, we should talk about beginnings. It’s cliché, but also an old truth, that the beginning of the story is the hardest part to write. It’s also true you should worry less about refining it until after you finish the rest of the story or at least until you’ve made considerable progress, enough to know you’...
June 22, 2016
Considering Tumblr and Other Questions
A friend of mine asked if I was going to post my chapter updates to Tumblr as well as to Wattpad. I'll admit I spend very little time on Tumblr these days but many of my friends and followers are still super active, and I know a lot of writers, though primarily fanfiction writers, who do post updates there and get a lot of feedback. Any Tumblr users out there who like the idea?
Also, while I already have a lot of ideas in mind for the weekly blog posts that will accompany the chapter updates,...
Also, while I already have a lot of ideas in mind for the weekly blog posts that will accompany the chapter updates,...
June 14, 2016
Hello, once again!
It’s been a little over a year since my website and social media pages went dark. It wasn’t supposed to take this long to get things up and running again, but you know how life is.
But I am happy to announce that cethornton.com and its associated social media pages are all back online, in advance of the relaunch of my trilogy, The Guardians of the Light. In the last year I have begun to update the books, rewriting them to a more consistent style but keeping the same story. My plan is to begin...
But I am happy to announce that cethornton.com and its associated social media pages are all back online, in advance of the relaunch of my trilogy, The Guardians of the Light. In the last year I have begun to update the books, rewriting them to a more consistent style but keeping the same story. My plan is to begin...
June 13, 2016
New Book Review: Eric Metaxas' "If You Can Keep It"
This past weekend I took a short vacation to Boston with my best friend. We are big history nerds, favoring the days of the American Revolution, and try to make it out to notable sites of early American history every couple of years.
Needless to say while some people find our forays exciting, we get just as many, if not more, people disdaining our interest, and the age discrepancy between the two categories concerns me. More and more people my age despise history and shun the lessons they coul...
Needless to say while some people find our forays exciting, we get just as many, if not more, people disdaining our interest, and the age discrepancy between the two categories concerns me. More and more people my age despise history and shun the lessons they coul...
New Book Review: Eric Metaxas' "If You Can Keep It"
This past weekend I took a short vacation to Boston with my best friend. We are big history nerds, favoring the days of the American Revolution, and try to make it out to notable sites of early American history every couple of years.
Needless to say while some people find our forays exciting, we get just as many, if not more, people disdaining our interest, and the age discrepancy between the two categories concerns me. More and more people my age despise history and shun the lessons they could learn, and even more concerning than the dismissiveness of our history is the dismissiveness of responsibility. I attempted to discuss the need for vigilance in our own affairs and government with a friend, who promptly told me, “No one is going to put that much effort into this; let the government handle it.” I just stared, flabbergasted, at the ignorance he inadvertently revealed. My generation and the one before it have forgotten where we came from, and my peers refuse to even try to see why their “new” ideas are inherently flawed has-been’s, and destructive ones at that.
All this weighed heavily on my heart as I walked the Freedom Trail in Boston this weekend, and thought about what I wanted to say about Eric Metaxas’s new book, "If You Can Keep It," which touches on this very subject and comes at just the right moment, if anyone is willing to listen anymore, instead of shouting down anyone who has a different idea than them.
The most essential reminder in "If You Can Keep It" is that we need to look back to see forward. Metaxas, in very short form to keep the attention of the widest audience possible, reminds us not only how the ideas behind the concept of America came to exist, but why they worked for so long, and also, since we have forgotten, how they worked, what the original concepts were. It’s faded from our memory and our culture, and it’s no wonder we are in chaos.
I’ve struggled for a long time, as part of the generation raised to resent those who founded my nation for their shortcomings, and to avoid “nationalistic pride,” to reconcile my love of my country and the people who founded it, to the very real issues of today that were not resolved at the ratification of the Constitution. Metaxas addresses this willingly, and gives me hope that the American dream I began to stop believing in years ago is not an illusion. It’s a promise we all have to strive to keep and build upon, for those who came before, for those here now, and for those to come, because no generation can complete every task that arises, but any one generation can destroy everything its predecessors worked to create.
I confess that the writing in this book felt far less polished than Metaxas’ previous works, but I attribute that to the fact he now hosts a radio show 5 days a week on top of his public speaking engagements, and likely had far less time to write than he did before. The book is nevertheless a worthwhile read, in its entirety. It’s a very quick read, only seven chapters, and the information it provides and the message it sends must be taken into account and acted upon if we want to be able to honestly say to our kids we did all we could to fix the mess we found ourselves in, during our generations’ days at the nation’s helm.
Needless to say while some people find our forays exciting, we get just as many, if not more, people disdaining our interest, and the age discrepancy between the two categories concerns me. More and more people my age despise history and shun the lessons they could learn, and even more concerning than the dismissiveness of our history is the dismissiveness of responsibility. I attempted to discuss the need for vigilance in our own affairs and government with a friend, who promptly told me, “No one is going to put that much effort into this; let the government handle it.” I just stared, flabbergasted, at the ignorance he inadvertently revealed. My generation and the one before it have forgotten where we came from, and my peers refuse to even try to see why their “new” ideas are inherently flawed has-been’s, and destructive ones at that.
All this weighed heavily on my heart as I walked the Freedom Trail in Boston this weekend, and thought about what I wanted to say about Eric Metaxas’s new book, "If You Can Keep It," which touches on this very subject and comes at just the right moment, if anyone is willing to listen anymore, instead of shouting down anyone who has a different idea than them.
The most essential reminder in "If You Can Keep It" is that we need to look back to see forward. Metaxas, in very short form to keep the attention of the widest audience possible, reminds us not only how the ideas behind the concept of America came to exist, but why they worked for so long, and also, since we have forgotten, how they worked, what the original concepts were. It’s faded from our memory and our culture, and it’s no wonder we are in chaos.
I’ve struggled for a long time, as part of the generation raised to resent those who founded my nation for their shortcomings, and to avoid “nationalistic pride,” to reconcile my love of my country and the people who founded it, to the very real issues of today that were not resolved at the ratification of the Constitution. Metaxas addresses this willingly, and gives me hope that the American dream I began to stop believing in years ago is not an illusion. It’s a promise we all have to strive to keep and build upon, for those who came before, for those here now, and for those to come, because no generation can complete every task that arises, but any one generation can destroy everything its predecessors worked to create.
I confess that the writing in this book felt far less polished than Metaxas’ previous works, but I attribute that to the fact he now hosts a radio show 5 days a week on top of his public speaking engagements, and likely had far less time to write than he did before. The book is nevertheless a worthwhile read, in its entirety. It’s a very quick read, only seven chapters, and the information it provides and the message it sends must be taken into account and acted upon if we want to be able to honestly say to our kids we did all we could to fix the mess we found ourselves in, during our generations’ days at the nation’s helm.
October 27, 2014
I've Written a Book Review!
I recently was given the opportunity to read Eric Metaxas' newest book, Miracles in advance of the launch and to write a review of it. I've posted it on my Tumblr blog as that's where I am most active, and attached the link below. Feel free to check it out, but feel freer to check out the book. It's way better than any review I could write about it!
http://cethornton3.tumblr.com/post/10...
http://cethornton3.tumblr.com/post/10...
I've Written a Book Review!
I recently was given the opportunity to read Eric Metaxas' newest book, Miracles in advance of the launch and to write a review of it. I've posted it on my Tumblr blog as that's where I am most active, and attached the link below. Feel free to check it out, but feel freer to check out the book. It's way better than any review I could write about it!
http://cethornton3.tumblr.com/post/101139291011/a-few-words
http://cethornton3.tumblr.com/post/101139291011/a-few-words
August 3, 2014
Something cool my friend sent me
One of my high school friends now works for the same school district we both attended, and tonight one of the videos she watched for her continuing education hours had this picture in it. That is one of the very first two printed copies of Shadowchild (I have the other), which I actually finished as my product for an independent studies course in the 12th grade. My teacher put it up on the wall, and it seems that it's still catching peoples' eye! Quite a wow moment for me, actually. 
February 2, 2014
Facebook, Tumblr and Wattpad
Hello all!
Two things, well three, since I might want to let you know I'm better at keeping up with my tumblr blog than this one, it seems. So, one, if you want to keep up with ALL my shenanigans, not just ones related to my work, be sure to visit cethornton3.tumblr.com
Secondly, and more importantly, you can now read Shadowchild in full on wattpad.com! Just go to www.wattpad.com/cethornton to find my profile and book. I've also linked to wattpad on the Books page.
Thirdly, I also have an offici...
Two things, well three, since I might want to let you know I'm better at keeping up with my tumblr blog than this one, it seems. So, one, if you want to keep up with ALL my shenanigans, not just ones related to my work, be sure to visit cethornton3.tumblr.com
Secondly, and more importantly, you can now read Shadowchild in full on wattpad.com! Just go to www.wattpad.com/cethornton to find my profile and book. I've also linked to wattpad on the Books page.
Thirdly, I also have an offici...
