Timothy's Thoughts

A s things go in this online community, the death of Michael Jackson led to Michael Hyatt writing a post about that, with a link back to a post about Creating a Life Plan . I used to have a life plan, but I got off of it when I didn’t get married by the time I was twenty-four. That used to bother me—a lot. Now, ten years later, I don’t even remember that I’m not married most of the time. I find it much easier to say, “Whatever you will, Lord.” It isn’t that I have a problem with people making a life plan, but I would have missed out on some really good things if I had stuck to my plans. Mike also suggests identifying key accounts, ordered by priority. I’ll show you my list and then we’ll talk about it: God Family, Church and Friends Self Ministry Finances Career Hobbies (including writing) God must come first. If he doesn’t, I’m in sad shape. For the second item, I included all three because I have a real hard time keeping my family, my church and my friends separate. They all seem li...

T ritagonist —there’s a term you don’t hear much. In a Greek play, the tritagonist was the third (and least) important character. In novels, we aren’t limited in how many people we can use in a scene, so we might not think as much about the deuteragonist and the tritagonist . These characters could be anyone. When the deuteragonist is the antagonist , the tritagonist may be the sidekick to the protagonist . Or, if the tritagonist might be the antagonist or someone else. The reason we might want to think in terms of protagonist , deuteragonist and tritagonist is that it is difficult to keep tack of more than three characters at a time. Consider the work of Agatha Christie. At times, she would have several characters in a room, such as when a murder was committed or when the killer was revealed, but during the investigative process, she often used a three character setup, one investigator talking to a couple or two investigators talking to one suspect. Even when a scene involves...