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Joelle Duran
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Day-to-day gratitudes and accomplishments in the life of Joelle Duran
My Heartfelt Gratitude...2019 has come, bringing me to twelve years since the worst period of my life during the hell year of 2007. As ever, I must express my unending gratitude for those who blessed me in those black months--most of all by following along with my life in  shouts_of_joy and caring enough to leave a note. Also by remembering me in their prayers--so precious every one of them! And of course the blessings of a note, email, or phone call. I am so grateful for those wonderful people, their kindness, their mercy and compassion, and also to those who displayed simple decency, of which there can never be too much in this world. Thank you, thank you! Were it not for you, my Geren novels would remain forever incomplete, my novellas would not exist, The Chronicles of Delarun and The Fourth Emissary would never be written, and the Triune novels would never have been started. I can never thank you enough, but I'm trying once again! |
What to say? I'm Christian, determined to be forever single, and now 44 years old. I've a great love for God's creation, and I've loved fantasy and fantasy stories since I discovered The Lorax and The Hobbit as a kid. Now I'm long out of college and working a good job in the 'real world,' with no more pets, and a small horde of houseplants sharing my home.
Being the contrary sort that I am, not only do I want to get collections of icons that break no copyright laws...I also want a journal that's just for positives! Quite enough bitching and ranting out on the web; here is the utter opposite.
I've been posting here regularly since late 2006, and most of my entries are about the daily joys of things I've seen, experienced, or accomplished. (I try to spare the world the disturbing experience of continual gushes about t'DoL.)
So that's what is in this journal. Happy gurgles, thankful blathering, grateful gushing...just burbles of delight as this lover of sorrow expresses her joy.
Psalm 126:5
My passion in life revolves around a set of five books comprising a huge fantasy story, of which I'm currently rewriting the fifth. As for writing itself...I hate it. The only reason I can make myself write is because my love for the characters in my stories (primarily the Defender of Life) is strong enough to overwhelm that dislike. If my love for him ever dies, then I shall write no more...but I'm not worried about that happening!
February of 2018 brought me to the twenty-fifth anniversary of when I first started drawing a man with wings bright-hued like a parrot's and wondered who he was... Now I'm more insane about him, and all his world, than ever. It has been quite a momentous 'chase,' and I look forward to where my pen will take me.
| My Stumping Grounds | |
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| Avarii Wings Triune books place last updated Apr 18, 2017 |
Shout of Joy My 'Misc LJ' last updated Oct 18, 2019 |
| FictionPress Hope's Passage and poems |
Vue Portfolio Assorted CGI art |
| Stories Resources | ||
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| Stories Descriptions | Stories Timeline | Map Mania! |
| Pronunciation Guide | What's cooking... | Beginnings |
| Writing Projects | |||
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| Name | Word Count | Status | Latest Progress |
| The Lark and the Lion | 13,670 | Complete! | Sept 15, 2018 |
| Relentless | 5,930 | Complete! | Feb 19, 2018 |
| The Deceptions of Hu-Havenn | 19,640 | Complete! | Nov 13, 2017 |
| The Desolation of Triune | 3,800 | Stopped | May 2, 2017 |
| Anything Goes in 2019 | |
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| Book | Visit |
| The Red Sea Rules by Robert Morgan | 1st |
| God, Where Are You?! by John Bevere | 1st |
| The Shadow at Evening by Chris Walley | Nth |
| The Power of the Night by Chris Walley | Nth |
| The Dark Foundations by Chris Walley | Nth |
| The Infinite Day by Chris Walley | Nth |
| Deerskin by Robin McKinley | Nth |
| Unexpected by Christine Caine | 2nd |
| The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce | Nth |
| A Gathering of Gargoyles by Meredith Ann Pierce | Nth |
| The Pearl of the Soul of the World by Meredith Ann Pierce | Nth |
| A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott | Nth |
| Enjoying Intimacy with God by J Oswald Sanders | 1st |
| It's Not Supposed to Be This Way by Lysa TerKeurst | 1st |
| Inexpressible by Michael Card | 1st |
| Optimisfits by Ben Courson | 1st |
| Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia McKillip | Nth |
| Unshamed by Christine Caine | 1st |
| Mystic And Rider by Sharon Shinn | Nth |
| Dark Moon Defender by Sharon Shinn | Nth |
| Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen | 1st |
| The Knowledge of the Holy by A W Tozer | 1st |
| Between Life and Death by Kathryn Butler, MD | 1st |
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