NOW would be good time be CERTAIN that you have oil in your lamp.
Did you know it's Easter this Sunday?
That makes it Good Friday THIS Friday!
Significance: Easter is the time Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, while Good Friday is the somber day Christians acknowledge the crucifixion and death of Jesus.
Given how dark things are in our world today I WANT to be raptured out of this world. I'm very sick of it, and have no reason to believe are going to get better until Jesus comes back. Sure I'd love to see one of my scripts produced and see my epic fantasy novel series be made into books; but I love the Lord more than the things of this world.
Read: Matthew 25, 1 Thessalonians 4:17, Luke 17:34 - 17:37, Matthew 24:31
The Holy Spirit is the giver of oil for your lamp. What you need to do is have a love for the Lord, accept as your Lord and Savior, and ask the Holy Spirit to fill your lamp. Don't let the rapture happen, and find yourself unprepared and be left behind.
This world is passing away, and when it you don't wanna be here for that.
So ask the Holy Spirit to fill your lamp today!
Jesus is Lord. Hallelujah! Praise the Lord. Love the Lord with ALL your heart, He deserves our best! Oh, and don't forget to listen for--
At the time of the writing of this post I am 35 pages into the writing of the 1st draft of Kathy Smith Conquers Duboose High School. This will be my 25th spec. script--when I write FADE OUT: THE END.
O-kay, so what does this have to do with Taylor Swift?
Well, she is BACK to be my mews again...
I mean, you can't tell me there isn't a MOVIE with this picture.
I mean is there ANYONE better to be a MALE WRITER'S MUSE when that aforementioned writer is writing a teen comedy centered around the story of a 14-year-old, feisty freshman. So far 35 pages in I'm not in automatic mode writing like I got after about page 68 of SO GO BACK & GET HER, but there is still hope for its prequel: KATHY SMITH CONQUERS DUBOOSE HIGH SCHOOL, because I've got some solid set pieces for this story. A couple that I've written in the first 35, hopefully for many more in the remaining pages.
Okay, so the writing life is going well now. 35, 1st draft pages in less than 3 days IS a good start. And don't worry: Kaya Jones (muse for the past year); I still LOVE you, and hope to connect with you some day on other scripts... But Taylor Swift is special. Very special. And it's not that I'm that enamored with what music she's been cranking out lately, but her work taken collectively as a whole, is PHENOMENAL. Won't lie I'm a MUCH BIGGER fan of T.S. when she's displaying her lighter side, as evident by --
E.C. Henry's Top 13 songs by music superstar Taylor Swift:
Love Story
22
You Belong with Me
How You Get the Girl
Getaway Car
The Other Side of the Door (Taylor's Version)
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Style
Shake It Off
Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor's Version)
New Romantics
Jump then Fall (Taylor's Version)
... Ready For It
Delicate
That's When (Taylor's Version)
Me!
Wildest Dreams
Look What You Made Me Do
(Added more songs to my original list after hearing Getaway car, and listening to Fearless (Taylor's Version))
Notice any trends in E.C.'s top 13? It's domiated by Taylor's more happier songs, not her darker or newest stuff. I remember watching Taylor Swift on a Late Show with Jimmy Fallon interview years ago, where Jimmy Fallon was lightly poking fun a Taylor Swift for her song: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together; and based on her reaction, Taylor looked a bothered by it all--so Jimmy didn't persist. That got me to wonder, was that song really that bad? Heard it for the first time about a week ago and was pleasantly surprised by how good it was:
I had to search i-tunes for that song. Even when I saw T.S. in concert in 2018? Well, it was the concert where she had pillars with scary snakes on them, which I thought was in very bad taste given the fact that her target audience is girls aged 9-20.
Can't really say Taylor Swift doesn't get the credit she deserves because EVERY YEAR she's a favorite with Grammy people, but what I can say is that her earlier stuff was MUCH BETTER that I thought it would be. I'm not a country music listener. Some country songs are o-kay, but as a whole the genre isn't for me. Taylor Swift started off in country music. So IF you like her today, go back and check-out these two of her earlier albums before she broke into superstardom with 1989: Fearless and Red; have some hits on them too! Don't miss this gem:
My spec. script soundtrack for Kathy Smith Conquers Duboose High School currently has 17 songs in it--and 4 of them are by Taylor Swift!
Muse indeed. Rock on, T.S.--and PLEASE go back to your fun-loving days, because that's when you are your best; and that's when your true fans are most pleased with you.
Okay, enough of the Taylor Swift lovefest time to eat a little late dinner, then go back for another round of writing on Kathy Smith Conquers Duboose High School. Next post coming at ya AFTER I finish the 1st draft of my latest spec. which I hope to have done BEFORE the end of the month. See ya then!
Scribophile E.C. is putting pages of his Legend of Thars series here to be critiqued. This is a site where novelists get feedback on their work. I'm a member of THREE groups there.