"There's a Reason Classics are Classic. They're Classic."

"There's a reason classics are classic.  They're Classic." - Mark Frost.

Classic is defined by the Webster dictionary as, "serving as a standard of excellence: of recognized value."

I do realize that my blog is starting to feel like it's been turning into a movie/book review blog.  Mostly because my most recent post I did was on Christian movies, and then I did one on a new book that just came out.   And it is a little different from what I usually do.  But.. I've really wanted to branch out into new areas.  Which can include giving my thoughts on movies like this, or wrestling with recent cultural issues.  I started this blog because I wanted to begin learning more about myself as a writer.  And writing on many different subjects is a very good way of accomplishing that.  

As a young adult preparing for college, I get asked the age-old question: "What are you going to do with your life?"  But, it is more along the lines of, "What are your plans now?" "What are you majoring in?"  "What do you want to do after college?"  And to that question I generally reply with, "I really would like to be a history teacher and author."  (Lord willing!)  And that may change, you never know.  But I really enjoy writing, and already have different ideas rolling around in my noggin.. and one that is already halfway invented.  If you have followed my meanderings and wanderings on this blog for some time, you may have caught it in the past.  If not, it was basically me just running with a story that I first found while writing for my Comp. 1 class.  (Go figure.)  

But as I said before, this blog was for me to learn and grow, and I was learning as I started writing The Sterling Prophecy.  Now this is the first book in The Sterling Trilogy, and I did end up posting the "final chapter" on this blog.  So, I guess you could say that I finished it.  But as time has rolled on, I found that there was more that I could add and flesh out.  I could give the characters more depth and character.  I could add more storyline here and there.  My picture that I was striving to paint had the raw essentials, but I really want it to be more vibrant.  

 I recently watched the movies Gladiator and Braveheart.  And in my estimation, these are classics.  These are movies that others should strive to be.  And that has been stirring in my mind.  If I'm going to somehow publish this book or a book like this, I want it to be the best that it can be.  And that takes time and editing, adding and subtracting, and persevering and pushing.  And so that is why I'm looking up to the classics as I'm writing.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't think I could ever even reach the level of classics like The Chronicles of Narnia or Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, but I definitely want to set this as the goal.

"Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that we had to rewrite the whole thing in shorthand, smashing it into two dimensions, just to talk about it.  Or don't imagine it.  Look outside.  Human language is our attempt at navigating God's language; it is us running between the lines of His epic, climbing on the vowels and building houses out of the consonants." - N. D. Wilson

This is me.. running between the lines of His epic.