September 16, 2008
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Sorry for the missed posts….
Sorry for my extended absence again. The Writer’s Choice questions will have to wait till next week, but here is the update on my webnovel and the holy days. I was going to post on Sunday, but then I read these reviews of my webnovel and I was kind of upset. The first review just kind of annoyed me (especially the comparison to Twilight!), but I thought the second was just kind of mean. I couldn’t get into writing much of anything after that. And I didn’t have any time yesterday, nor do I really have any today.
I’ll try to post something more substantial tomorrow or Thursday.
Tattoothe webnovel so far…
Chapter 1: Blood is ThickerChapter 1.1 in which Glory is not mindful of the store
Chapter 1.2 in which Glory is made to do something she would really rather not
Chapter 1.3 in which Glory thinks she might be sick
Chapter 1.4 in which Aaron makes a mistake
Chapter 1.5 in which Glory is made to see the error of her ways
Chapter 1.6 in which the circle remains unbrokenChapter 2: A Farewell to ArmsChapter 2.1 in which Aaron makes another mistake
Chapter 2.2 in which Glory reflects on her path
Chapter 2.3 in which we learn Aaron is not really a nice boy
Chapter 2.4 in which Glory speculates on the holiness of salt
Chapter 2.5 in which Glory learns of the necessity for upper body strength, but makes do with what she has
Chapter 2.6 in which Aaron tries to make amends, but is still pretty much an assChapter 3: Small SacrificesChapter 3.1 in which Glory is spat on, twice
Chapter 3.2 in which a cop is threatened
Chapter 3.3 in which someone is crying
Chapter 3.4 in which there’s more to the moon than meets the eye
Chapter 3.5 in which Glory comes face to face with an loony environmentalist
Chapter 3.6 in which Glory gets turned around
Chapter 3.7 in which Glory is threatened
Chapter 4: The Shape of Things to ComeChapter 4.1 in which a doctor makes his rounds
September 15th
According to the Chinese, this is the day the Moon was created.
This is the birthday of Henry Cornelius Agrippa in 1486.
September 16th
A festival for Ra, Osiris and Horus occurs on the last day of Paopi.
September 17th
The 1st day of Hethara is a Feast of Hathor.
September 19th
A day long fast in honor of Thoth occurred today according to the Alexandrian calendar.
Congressman Robert S Walker introduced bill HR-3389 to amend IRS rules to deny tax-exempt status to witchcraft organizations.
September 20th
This is the birthday of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. Incas marked the Spring equinox with a ceremony held at dawn in their mountain-top temple. They would wait in the dark for the first rays of the sun, and then after rejoicing, they would feast, sacrifice animals, and perform divinations.
Alexander the Great, deified after his death, was born in 356 BC.
September 21st
The Egyptian feast of Divine Life was an Autumnal celebration dedicated to the three-fold goddess – mother (creatrix, daughter (renewer), and dark mother (absolute). Hathor was honored.
The Kappa-Aquarids meteor shower peaks at this time. It is active from the September eighth to the thirtieth.
In Norway, Raud the Strong was hideously tortured and martyred by the Christian king Olaf Tryggvason.
September 22nd
Mabon was to the ancient Celts a festival in honor of the Welsh god Mabon son of the goddess Modron though it has also been attributed to Queen Mab of the fairy people. It is called Alban Elfred by the Druids and Winter Finding by the Asatru who consider it sacred to Frey. The autumnal equinox is the date of the second harvest, this time of fruit. Blackberries, sacred to Brigit, must be harvested between now and Samhain or left for the pookas, fairies who receive all unharvested fruits after November 1.
In Japan, the autumn equinox is Higan, meaning “the other shore” or heaven. To honor the dead, on this day Buddhists visit cemeteries and pray for the souls of their departed ancestors.
The Eleusinian Mysteries, sacred to Demeter and Persephone, begin tonight.
Karpo, goddess of autumn, and Carman, goddess of poetry, were honored tonight and tomorrow.
Comments (3)
There’s definitely a difference between constructive criticism and just mean criticism. I think both of those would fall under the latter category.
Do what’s good for you. And yeah, don’t take other people’s crap.
I’ve been MIA from your novel. I don’t have good excuses, but I have decent reasons.
Keep it up!
I would take those reviews with a grain of salt. It sounded to me like those two didn’t like the novel because of their personal tastes, not because of the quality of the novel itself. Keep writing!
Oh, and now I know the birthday of Alexander the Great. How cool is that?