Writing Projects...

Okay, for those who want to know how I keep busy when I'm not working (which takes up a lot of time) or studying for the GRE, read on. I enjoy writing. Of course, I have a lot of writing projects that I'm not very good at keeping track of or making progress on. Some of the more prominent ones on my queue are the following.

Plays:

Learning How To Speak Corporate (This is a short, humorous (I hope) play taken loosely from personal experience involving speaking with my brother.)

Sagecraft: Secrets of the Past (This is part four of an epic play I have been writing this year about a young man who seeks to save the world from the consequences of arcane studying into dark arts. In this part of the epic, the young eponymous sage and his friends explore the world looking for ancient history books.)

Original Sin (This play is about the slave trade in England, told by a young man kidnapped in Liverpool to serve on a slave ship as a doctor, set in the late 1700's. This book is also a dramatization of "Bury The Chains" from Adam Hothschild.)

A Palace Coup (This play is set in the misty days of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, as told by a recent National Geographic article about the tombs of Saqarra.)

Prose Fiction:

Chevalier (This short story/short novel is to be the first in the "War Games" series, where a young man who tests virtual reality games is pitted against an old enemy in a deadly virtual enactment of a Civil War campaign.)

The Imperial Marines (This short story continues the Secfenia Dark story, looking at the stumbling, bumbling exiles from the first class of the Imperial School.)

Prose Nonfiction:

The Implied Social Contract of Romans 13 (I'm almost finished with this paper, which is an analysis of Romans 13 as a tract against tyranny, rather than as an apologetic for absolutism, as it is often false interpreted to be.)

Deuteronomy 17: The Law Concerning Kings (Probably my next paper, after I finish the Romans 13 paper, this work explores the consequences of Deuteronomy 17 as to the system of constitutional rulership the Bible requires for just government, which places strict limitations onto the activities of leaders.)

Lessons From The Jerusalem Conference (This paper looks at Acts 15 and its lessons as to participatory government, resolution of doctrinal issues, and communication between members and the ministry, and between leaders themselves.)

Melchizedek Priesthood (This paper is a look at what separates the Melchizedek priesthood from the Levitical priesthood, and analyzes the resulting lack of a recognizable human priesthood in the Church of God, since only Jesus Christ is our priest today.)

Some Long-Term Writing Projects:

Rules of Interpretation (This paper, which will have to wait on research, is a look at the subject of hermeneutics, and will seek to establish and defend a system of rules for sound biblical exegesis. Of particular importance will be a look at how to interpret the Bible properly, using such methods as context, harmonization, literalism, and so forth.)

Canonicity (This paper, another rather scholarly work, is awaiting research on the differing views over the books of the Bible, and will seek to defend the canon we possess, without unnecessarily denigrating the apocryphal works (some of which are actually good reading, for historical purposes at least.) )

Obadiah and Nahum: Prophets of Destruction (This paper will compare the two biblical odes to destruction, the short books of Obadiah (a book on the destruction of Edom), and Nahum (a book on the destruction of Assyria), looking at their historical fulfillment and prophetic importance for us today.)

Romans Project (This will include an exegetical analysis of the chapters of Romans and the book as a whole. This project will take awhile.)

The Twelve Apostles Project (This will include an analysis of the twelve apostles, and will also take a long while.)

Okay, I'll be busy writing these for years, and more will no doubt be added to the list as time goes on...