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.