Mythology and Medieval Myth

 The Tojan War has gained much attention over the years, and I myself am a long time fan of the Siege of Troy, and very familiar with it's stories. But even for those of you who are not, who hasn't heard of the Trojan horse and it's secret attack on Troy? Or for that matter, who hasn't heard of the duel between Achilles and Troy? Or the love affair of Priam and Helen? However, what is lesser well known is the heavy influence of these stories in the Medieval mind. Much Medieval art depicts Greek soldiers in Medieval Armour, and people in Medieval times, in fact thought they were descendants of characters from the stories.
   But what most people do not realize is the strong connection between The Trojan War and the Crusades. Both were wars in which western armies invaded eastern lands, both were heavily fought around beaches, both were greatly made up of sieges, and both have their stories of cruelty and chivalry.
 The Greek myths no doubt have inspired many religions and other stories, but people in Medieval times took ideas from the Greeks and Christianized them. Augustine did this with Plato. Aquinas did it with Aristotle. Other Christians have done it with the Greek myths. For since the time of at last the 4th century, Christians have believed that taking dominion is important, and that our world is full of many beauties and  gifts that can be used for Christ, even if once by pagans. Christians have done this with Christmas and Easter both, and other days once celebrated by pagans. Just as the Hebrews took dominion over pagan lands and used them for their people, so we as Christians should be able to take over the arts and literature and put it forward for Christ. For there are many things in the world like Greek Philosophy and Myths that we may use as Christians, and put towards the glory of Christ.
 Whether or not people of Medieval Times were descendants from the Trojan myths, I leave to debate. But let me say this, and that is, that there are more truth in many myths and legends than is always admitted.

What off Writing Time is like

 I'm sure some wonder what I do, when I don't write my books. Well, a lot of things, like play chess, read comics, and have History/ Theology discussions. But besides all of this, there are many other things I do including watching Disney's DuckTales.

I have watched the first three seasons of Duck tales and Re-watched them over the past, four years. Duck Tales has been both an inspiration to my work and a fun relaxing time for me when I'm not doing heavy work. The series has is one of my favorite's, and because of my likening of Donald's nephews, I'm sometimes called Dewey. 

I use to think for many years that I was the only person whom actually took inspiration from Disney cartoons, but I was wrong. I took inspiration from The Brave Little tailor, about Mickey Mouse for Peter de Preaux in my series of Kings and Crusaders, probably for the fact that just as Mickey Mouse was the unlikely hero to kill a giant, Peter, was the unlikely hero to fight boldly behind Acre during. the 1191 siege. The humor of Walt Disney's cartoons also balanced my stomach and head from bad stress, when I have much work to do. Therefore, Disney cartoons were my evening watch, to balance my stress. In 2012, I wrote and concentrated on series stuff all the time, and by 2013, I could no longer handle it. After reading advice for writer's block on some websites that same year, I decided to write my stories early in the day, and watch cartoons in the later part of the day. Thus my day was balanced, and I began writing much easier as I was no longer under so much stress. Writing in 2013, became very enjoyable to me, in some ways more than the last year, and ever since this has been my habit. Some cartoons were too stressful, while others were more stupid with no plot. Duck Tales made the good balance, by having good stories and characters, while being relaxing and fun.

Watching series films in the evening most of the time for example, was too serious for me to handle after spending hours and hours on writing, research, and contemplating my story throughout the day, as well as finishing up school and getting my exercise in. Cartoons, particularly Disney's, were the good balance for the evenings. Huey, Dewey, and Louie with their uncle Scrooge, and cousin Webbigail, along with Launchpad Mcquack and Doofus, with their adventures and events in their lives, I watched with my sister Ashley every week. Me and my sister Ashley have many memoirs of Watching Duck Tales in the morning and midday.  

I have advice here for my friend writers, when writing, relax, do things to make you relax, never rush your story, give it all the time you need, and feel your day with lovable and calm and fun things, so that when you write, you have lot's of energy and strength to to put towards it, and never, never, let anyone put your noble work down, as the greatest before you have faced criticism, and handwork to get to the legends that many of them are now. Remember let your work be a masterpiece, as it will be the part of you that lives on to the next generations. 

 Writing is a habit, it requires skill and work, but above all enthusiasm and perseverance, for these will be what keep you going. Our Heavenly Father is the Creator and first artists. Let us make use of his great Creation to make stories and enjoy them. 

As I said, I thought I was the only one whom took from Disney like that, to take inspirational ideas from it and write, but I'm not the only one. Two Disney Duck stories inspired the classic, Raiders of the Lost Ark and it's opening sequence: "The Seven Cities of Cibola"and "The Prize of Pizarro". So even, Disney stories with Donald Duck, can inspire great classics. In my case, Duck Tales and other cartoons were an inspiration to me. By evaluating the cartoons stories, and taking their simple ideas into bigger ones, one can truly began writing some good classics. 

The Later Life and Faith of Joshua Dotson 2007-2010

 The first post about briefing over my life may be found by going to the search bar at the top left of the screen and typing in this title: The early life and faith of Joshua Dotson, which overviews a few things about from 1996 to 2007.
 Around 2007, under heavy influence from C. S. Lewis's writings and a desire to be like him and make a world like he did of Narnia, I decided to become a writer. I was eleven. During the period of the next three years I wrote many stories that were never finished.
 My work major work was The Robbit, a story imitating The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien with a good amount of humor. The work was about a hundred pages long, being written from around Summer 2008 to I believe, Summer 2011. The majority of the story I think was finished in 2009. I greatly delayed on it's ending, writing other stories and so it wasn't finished until 2011 completely. The Robbit had been written under my inspiration of my two best friends, Seth and Samuel Shiply, whom made movies, and wanted me to write a new story for their upcoming film.
 During 2007-2010 I began a host of other stories including comics and sci-fi and fantasy, and action/adventure, and historical fiction.
 A change in my writing career was when I read The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. I always loved history, but the book changed many of my interest in writing from fantasy to real life events. The Killer Angels has since, continued to be an inspiration to all my writings.
 I attempted on writing American Civil War stories, American Revolution, and World War II. Though I loved the civil War the best, most of my friends also knew it the best, and I wanted to tell a story they didn't as well.
 I wrote a book called The Killer Fighters about the Normandy Invasion and D-Day from Summer 2009 to October 2010. It was clearly my longest work. It was about 400 pages hand written. The story also had a lot of backup research and was my first book that I seriously did historical research for. I used books at the library for example. It was a good story one of, or my first, really serious story.