Dear Cathinfo folks,

I don't really feel like I'm contributing much to the discussion, here or at Fisheaters.  Between the two sites, I've probably posted about 2000 times.  

This is not because I have some sort of a SSPX disagreement or a problem with moderators or anything.  I just think I need to re-center my attention onto a forum of writers or some sort of fiction website.  Often, what I talk about is not interesting or followed up on with these two forums.  So basically, I'm needing to re-focus on my writing work so I can maybe make something of myself.  I'll probably lurk every now and then.  But my participation is about to be slowed down a lot.

Thanks for teaching me a lot, and y'all take care.

-Laramie
Tulsa, OK

Sorry to see you go Laramie, but you know what your heart weighs upon you to do. Take a break from the forums and do a little soul-searching as they say.

May God help you find what your looking for.

Just so you know, your posts were well received and valued from my vantage point. Don't sell yourself short.

I wish you good fortune in your endeavor.

Take care, Laramie. Hope to see you return one day.

God Bless.

This is not because I have some sort of a SSPX disagreement or a problem with moderators or anything.  I just think I need to re-center my attention onto a forum of writers or some sort of fiction website.  Often, what I talk about is not interesting or followed up on with these two forums.  So basically, I'm needing to re-focus on my writing work so I can maybe make something of myself.  I'll probably lurk every now and then.  But my participation is about to be slowed down a lot.

Sorry to see you go Laramie.

It repents me that I have not discussed with you matters regarding such things as narratology, literary criticism, &c. Most of the times, certain ecclesiastical questions of gravity and urgency occupy my mind and these prompt me to write, when I am not scanning from books, editing and uploading them here on CathInfo, or working to pay my many debts.

I never wrote prose fiction, but as an adolescent I wrote much poetry (which happily has been lost). However, throughout my academic career, I studied literary criticism and aesthetic theory too in depth to be able to write poetry worth the ink and paper. That tends to happen a lot.

At the University, I studied Medieval and Renaissance English literature, so my literary repertoire pretty much ends with the Metaphysical Poets (the Romanticists being the exception). My previous addiction to films opened new panoramas of narratological possibilities, which enriched my training as a literary critic. But such training is of no avail at the practical level because I do not read much fiction anymore, and the most contemporary thing I have read lately has been the St. Andrew Missal (the English side, the Latin is ancient, as we know).

I hope you find that for which you are seeking.

My advice (other than prayer, penance, fidelity to duties of state, &c.) is to read as much Classical works as you can and attempt to attain to that state of mind which transcends the limitations of the hic et nunc and prepares you for the epiphanic ascent unto that clarity and facility of mind that will enable you to avail yourself of the plenitude of the profundity and sublimity of the immortal soul that God has given you.

Please be assured of my prayers.  

2000 posts is a lot, in just over a year.  I'd get burned out too.  After a while, I feel like I have nothing to contribute and if I continue, I'll probably start to make posts I'm ashamed of.  So, I usually spend the internet time reading the growing stack of excellent books I have to read instead!  

Also, spending that much time at fisheaters would make me sick.  

Laramie,

Don't bother trying to find a forum to express yourself.  Instead, focus on your interior life.

The interior life can only be improved by an active prayer life.  Set aside times of the day and focus on your prayer life.  

Use a devotional book as a guide, maybe St. John of the Cross' "Dark Night of the Soul" or St. Teresa of Avila's "Interior Life" or perhaps someone here can post another suggestion.

Merely looking for entertainment at a "fiction writer's" forum won't help you with the larger issues at play here.

 

to every thing ... there is a season........ all the best....

Often, what I talk about is not interesting or followed up on with these two forums.  

Sorry to see you go, Laramie. I don't know about others, but I only respond to a small percentage of posts I find interesting, and I assume others are the same way. You shouldn't be discouraged because you don't get a million replies.