Temptation Part 3 sneak peek
Hey everyone.
I had a great writing day today. Finished up an essay for Christian Century. About a 6 hour ordeal, and this was something I've had in progress for a couple of months. I'll send it to them tomorrow.
CC also posted a piece today that I gave them back in December. We all forgot about it. I sent my editor an email and said, "Hey, did you guys ever publish that Tethered piece?" She sent email back. "Oops. I guess we forgot that one."
So it was 4pm, and I had 2 hours left. Promised Jeanene I'd leave the church at 6pm. I decided to see how much I could get done on the Temptation story. I got a first draft finished by 6pm. The writing went MUCH faster than usual.
I thought I'd give you guys a look ahead if you're interested. Disclaimer. This is an absolute first draft. Right out of my head and onto the paper. I NEVER let people see these. I'm weird that way. I can't believe I'm doing this. I'll probably wake up in the middle of the night, say "Oh shit" and pull it offline.
I don't know what and how much will change before it goes online. Typically I don't even have a first draft. I work in sections. This time it came out as one draft. I'll go over this until I can read it through without anything bothering me. 20 times? Who knows? I don't count.
So if you want to get a peek at the end of the story. Here's a .pdf file from my writing software. Unless something radical happens, there won't be any major changes to the structure. I hate the ending. It's really just a placeholder. Hopefully I'll come up with a way to end it while I'm going over it.
http://RealLivePreacher.com/temptation3.pdf.
By the way, I chose to enlarge the scripture quotations from Satan and Jesus to indicate the context from which they come. It is important to know that Jesus quotes from Deuteronomy first, then Satan takes a Psalm out of context. Jesus counters with the Shema, understanding good scripture interpretation both includes the context and weighs passages against each other according to their purpose.
I saw no way to make this clear in the story without adding a little to the scriptures quoted.
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Submitted by Simon on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 13:40.That was awesome, Gordon, thank you for the sneak peek.
I do agree that the very end isn't as strong as the rest. But to get all that out in draft format in just two hours... very strong finish to the tale.
The enlarged scriptures passages add to it, for me. But I need the help with those sorts of things. I only know John 3:16 off by heart, and that only because it pops up *somewhere* at every single baseball game EVER.
I can't wait to read the finished version and see how it compares. (I'm glad I caught this before you pull it offline. Nice Friday gift.)