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The Novel (Apocrypha) Keeps On Going

December 12, 2009 writing No Comments
The Novel (Apocrypha) Keeps On Going

The zombie novel is coming along lovely. I have the first 7 chapters posted (but still editing) and another 4 getting cleaned up. If you can’t guess by the picture, this is a typical zombie apocalypse story with a twist (what that twist is, i don’t know yet. It’s a work in progress, for God sakes). So there are packs of survivors scattered around San Francisco, California who are trying to find a way out of the city, surrounded by millions of walking dead. Sound familiar? Hell yeah it is. Why mess with greatness? I’m not trying to re-write the genre. I love the genre the way it is. All I’m trying to do is do something AS GOOD as what has come before.

It’s funny. The first 6 chapters I had written in my head years ago. They’ve just been sitting in my brain waiting for my lazy ass to type them up. Those chapters were just the scenes that introduced and established my characters. Now.. this whole ‘moving the plot forward’ thing is a lot more difficult than I anticipated. Now I have all my players where they’re suppose to be. The big challenge now is figuring out how to get them all converging in the same direction, and more importantly, who’s going to survive the trip. The original plan to have just one character or no characters survive in the end. But I fell in love with most of them and it’s hard thing to kill off people when you know you can do so much more with them.

Start Reading: Apocrypha: An Ongoing Zombie Novel at:
http://www.toddkelley.net/novel

And if you got time, leave comments, rants and/or constructive criticism. I’m not a writer, so this ain’t my lively hood. More of a labor of love to keep the creative juices from becoming aptrophied.

Not Very Christian of Me: The Escapist Faith of a Lost Shepherd

August 2, 2009 All, television, writing 1 Comment
Not Very Christian of Me: The Escapist Faith of a Lost Shepherd

Searching the web looking for information on Shepard Book, an intriguing character, played by Ron Glass on the cult series Firefly. I came cross this facinating post on the experience.mhgs.edu site. For the record I love examinations of created characters.  But check out the post and then the paper by Ian Klein and Kj Swanson. Real fascinating stuff.

At MHGS watching TV is never just watching TV. It’s an opportunity to encounter new characters and situations through the lens of text.soul.culture. This week, Kj Swanson along with Ian Klein co-presented their paper on the themes of fundamentalism and identity as seen through the character of Shepherd Book in the Joss Whedon series, Firefly. She recounts her story below.

In August ’08, my friend Ian Klein (Columbia University) and I decided to collaborate on a paper to submit to the American & Popular Culture Association’s Southwest Annual Conference. Our paper, “Not Very Christian Of Me: The Escapist Faith of a Lost Shepherd in Joss Whedon’s Firefly” was accepted as part of the panel devoted to the works of writer/director Joss Whedon.  This past February, Ian and I flew down to Albuquerque for four of the most fun days of our lives: seriously. 10 hours of paper presentations a day on everything from the “Left Behind” series to zombie movies, from Twitter to Harry Potter.  It was candy for the interdisciplinary soul.

As MHGS made it possible for me to attend the conference, Ian and I both wanted a chance to share our work with our friends and community here in Seattle, and MHGS felt like the perfect environment for the kind of discussion we wanted to engage. So this Monday, we presented: “Theology.Psychology.Spaceships” a film screening, paper presentation and discussion around the themes of our work exploring issues of fundamentalism, identity, faith and pop culture in the narrative context of a cult TV series. It felt like the perfect culmination to our year of collaborating, wondering and creating out of these questions. We had an amazing time and were thankful for all who came eager to be entertained as well as ask questions about the nature of conversion, the role of freedom in faith, and what it means to embrace one’s past rather than eradicate it. Thanks for coming. Let’s watch more TV together soon.

We celebrate Kj and Ian’s hard work and can hardly wait to see what their working on next. Until then, you candownload their paper, or read Kj’s and Ian’s blog to keep up with their work.

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Mars Hill Graduate School exists to train people to be competent in the study of text, soul and culture in order to experience God through transforming relationships. We offer three master degree programs in Counseling PsychologyDivinity and Christian Studies.

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