mutual support system for active writers

[Aaron]

Here's what works for me:

I am a writer (historical fiction, probative theology) and ceramic artist who needs all the support and encouragement I can get. I recently lost my morning (8:10 a.m. EST) chat buddy who helped keep me motivated and focused. So I'm currently seeking an active female writer for mutual support by telephone or Skype.

I'd prefer a female (just always seem to communicate better) who writes 2+ hours nearly every day. The idea is to greet each other and to check-in on our emotional state relative to the writing we did the previous day. We might end each session by setting the starting point and the focal energy for the current day. As we get more relaxed with each other, we can explore active listening and role playing in order to unravel writer's block and to celebrate successes. This is a 20-40 minute mutual encouragement and support system, nothing more and nothing less.

Interested? Drop me a line and let's discuss the possibilities. Please put "mutual support" in as your subject line so your mail gets sent to my special mailbox. Thanks!

FreeSpirit45202(at)Yahoo.com

[Aaron]

Dear Scarlett,

I haven't found this to be my case. Not that anyone in my family raves about my books, mind you.

I make my books more visible by dedicating them to my children. That gets their notice.

Are you actively writing currently? Please tell me about it.

Aaron

[Aaron]

Here is my latest book proposal just sent off to Liturgical Press.

title=The Seven Deadly Errors of the Catholic Hierarchy
subtitle=A Catholic Theologian Shows How to Protect Yourself,
Your Family, and Your Parish from Episcopal Tyranny
with a case study on how Bishop Lennon of Cleveland
defrauded the faithful Catholics of St. Peter's Church (2010-2013).

Error #1 Contraceptives are intrinsically evil and sometimes cause abortions
Error #2 Clerical celibacy originates in the life and teachings of Jesus
Error #3 Indulgences are rooted in the apostolic teaching
Error #4 Human life begins from the first moment of conception
Error #5 According to God's plan, women are called either to motherhood or to virginity
Error #6 Women cannot be Catholic priests because Jesus deliberately chose only men
Error #7 Homosexual sexuality is intrinsically disordered and contrary to natural law

1. "Papal Politics, Paul VI, and Vatican II: The Reassertion of Papal Absolutism" [Click to view.]
[proposed new title] How Paul VI Bushwacked Vatican II on Indulgences, Priestly Celibacy, and Contraceptives
2. "Serious Soft Spots in the Catholic Bishops' Anti-Abortion Agenda"
The Absurd Invention of Abortion as Murder "from the First Moment of Conception"
3. "A Catholic Father Advises his Daughters Regarding the Soft Spots in Mulieris Dignitatem"
A Catholic Father Advises his Daughters Against the Debilitating Feminism of John Paul II
4. "What Peter Might Say to John Paul II on the Occasion of his Definitive Exclusion of Women from Priestly Ministry"
What Peter Might Say to John Paul II Regarding his Abuse of Papal Power Relative to Women's Ordination
5. "What Jesus Might Say to John Paul II on the Occasion of his Definitive Exclusion of Women from Priestly Ministry"
What Jesus Might Say to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith When He Was Blamed for Permanently Excluding Women from Ordination
6. Cardinal Ratzinger's Intrinsically Disordered Thoughts on Homosexuality
7. How John XXIII Galvanized Action to Rid the Church of its Anti-Jewish Heresy; How John Paul II and Benedict XVI Opened the Back Door to Readmit Anti-Judaism
8. Francis I--Prospects for Reforming the Vatican and Getting the Agenda of Vatican II Back on Track

Preface

For fifty years, the vast majority of Roman Catholics have been forced into a reluctant silence when it comes to birth control, celibacy of priests, indulgences, ordination of women, and homosexuality. I myself, while teaching in Roman Catholic seminaries for twenty-five years, was forced to keep a guarded silence on all these issues. But this reluctant obedience has not served me nor has it served those whom I helped prepare for lay and ordained ministry.

As Fr. Helmut Schüller, the charismatic founder of the Austrian Priests' Initiative, says, "Obedience has been overrated. The times require of us that we speak out." Hence, 425 priests joined together in drafting their "Appeal to Disobedience" in which they pledged to God and to his people to bring about changes in the Church that the bishops are unwilling and unable to bring about because they owe their first allegiance to the Vatican.

By way of atoning for my years of silence, I have prepared this book in order to equip my former students and all those who are interested in sorting out the wheat from the chaff within Catholic teaching. What you discover herein will supply you with clear, strong, and compelling case studies that can be used to open up informed and transparent explorations on topics that have largely clouded by authoritative pronouncements, by shoddy biblical scholarship, and by ignorance of Catholic history. Whether you want to speak to your teenage daughter or to your bishop, these case studies will offer talking points that will make you free. For those who are confused by claims and counter-claims, this book will offer you powerful tools for reconsidering the issues and for engaging church leaders to do the same. Blind obedience may be suitable for children; adult faith requires much more.

Aaron

[Aaron]

Dear Scarlett,

You say: The Angel with Burnt Wings is a fictional memoir, an in-depth revelation of real life happenings of a young girl, just 19, who went to jail where she spent many years.

Does this mean that you personally heard the story of this girl. It inspired you. And then you wrote the story in a way as to bring alive its essential character and meaning???

Aaron

[Aaron]

Dear Scarlett,

Is there a single chapter of this work that I could read?

Aaron

[Aaron]

Dear Scarlett,

Here's a glimpse of the passion that has set me on fire:

Given the exponential growth in the world population, the question naturally emerged in 1968 as to whether unchecked human growth is sustainable during the next hundred or two hundred years.
Many dismissed this on the grounds that there was ample space for housing developments nearly everywhere (even in Hong Kong); hence, the earth could easily sustain two to three times our present population. Pope Pius VI in Humanae Vitae agreed with this optimistic view of the future.
But now we know what we could not know in 1968. Four points and a conclusion:
#1 According to the United Nations, one in every five humans depends on fish as the primary source of protein. (United Nations, 2004) On the other hand, marine ecologists fear that the biggest single threat to marine ecosystems today is overfishing. Our appetite for fish is exceeding the oceans' ecological limits with devastating impacts on marine ecosystems. The cod fisheries off Newfoundland, Canada, collapsed in 1992, leading to the loss of some 40,000 jobs in the industry. The cod stocks in the North Sea and Baltic Sea are now heading the same way and are close to complete collapse. As population grows, the pressure for more and more effective fishing increases, and no government can, in conscience, limit the growth of industrial fishing so that sustainability can again be achieved. For this crime, we and our children's children will suffer. . . .
#2 The story for oil shows exactly the same phenomena. Recently developing countries like India and China are legitimately moving toward increased industrialization to feed, clothe, and house their teeming populations. Meanwhile, the International Energy Agency's (IEA) 2010 World Energy Outlook estimated that conventional crude oil production has peaked and is depleting at 6.8% per year. US Joint Forces Command's Joint Operating Environment 2010 issued this warning to all US military commands "By 2012, surplus oil production capacity could entirely disappear, and as early as 2015, the shortfall in output could reach nearly 10 million barrels per day." (www) So no government is currently rationing oil products; rather, every nation is trying to out-produce everyone else so that their people can enjoy the luxurious lifestyle that manufactured goods promise. But who is speaking for those who will be living when the industrialized landscape has to begin shutting down due to oil depletion? For this crime, our children's children will suffer. . . .
#3 Governments have admitted that acid rain is a serious international environmental problem and many countries have taken steps to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. But air pollution does not stop at national boundaries. As the industrialization of India and China moves into high gear, this pollution produces smog in their cities. This is the immediate effect. Meanwhile, these invisible poison gases enter the atmosphere and, much later, forests and fish living thousands of miles away are put at risk due to the falling of acid rain. Some of the most dramatic effects on forests have been observed in Europe. In 1983, a survey in West Germany showed that 34% of the country's total forest is damaged by air pollution. This included about one half of the famous Black Forest. Switzerland, despite its careful management of its forest reserves, has recorded damage to 14% of her forest trees due to the pollution that originates outside its borders. For this crime, we and our children's children will suffer. . . .

#4 Finally, scientists can measure climate change by studying the levels of CO2 in our atmosphere. As the atmospheric CO2 goes above 350 parts per million by volume, scientists have recorded the melting of ice sheets, rising sea level, abrupt shifts in forest and agricultural land, and increasing intensity and frequency of extreme events like floods, wildfires, and heat waves. But who is speaking up for the planet earth and the limitations on the CO2 levels that it can safely absorb? For this crime, we and our children's children will suffer. . . .

Conclusion:

So now, in view of what we now know, what should be our reaction to the "family planning" proposed by Pope Francis I in the leading question that he offers us for our consideration:

Question 7 f. How can a more open attitude towards having children be fostered? How can an increase in births be promoted?

This question make my blood boil! The world population at the time when Humanae Vitae was published was 3.5 billion. Today's world population is 7.2 billion. This is more than double. Let's face it. Our Mother Earth CANNOT SUSTAIN another fifty years of reckless population growth.

Here is the question that a prophetic Francis I should be asking:

Question 7 f. How can a more open attitude towards childless couples be fostered? How can an decrease in births be promoted?

Not to make this change NOW is to blindly continue to disrupt the ecosystems of our dear home and planet. It is to put our entire future at risk. For this crime, we and our children's children will suffer beyond all measure. . . .

So, what do you think? Do you have any energy for a truth-telling book like the one that I propose?

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Aaron





You've caught my interest.