These writing worksheets are designed with some sort of novel in mind. If you're writing another type of book, this notebook would not be very helpful.
Like many writing worksheets I've seen, some of the various writing worksheets in this notebook were evidently designed to create some sort of mainstream fiction involving characters in our world; you will see that in the character profile worksheets, which have fields like "Education/IQ," "Financial Status," and "Marital Status." If you're writing something that might not fit that category (such as science fiction or fantasy), you might have to modify the character profiles to fit your needs.</blockquote
As far as I noticed, the Holy Spirit does not appear in Paradise Lost. When the Persons of the Trinity appear, it is only God the Father and God the Son. The reason for that is obvious enough to Bible readers: the more mysterious nature of the Holy Spirit. It is simply impossible to depict the Holy Spirit as a character in a literary work, because unlike with the Father or the Son, the Bible does not give us the kind of information needed to form a literary characterization. Milton must have conceded this, and avoided trying.
Milton posits that the pagan gods or idolatrous concepts described in the Old Testament--such as Beelzebub (Baal; "lord of the flies/dung heap"), Moloch (fire god requiring child sacrifice), mammon (money, materialism), and Belial--are inspired by actual individual demons corresponding to those characteristics described in the OT. That could be true, but not necessarily. The idols in the Bible could be inspired by demons other than Satan, or they could all be inspired by Satan himself. There is no way to be sure.
I partly wrote, partly dictated, this book twenty-eight years ago during a complicated domestic crisis, and with very little time for revision. It was my bitter leave-taking of England where I had recently broke a good many conventions; quarreled with, or been disowned by, most of my friends; been grilled by the police on suspicion of attempted murder; and ceased to care what anyone thought of me.
[June 2012] So far, this fantasy story is self-consciously impressionistic--the narrator tends to give vague and mysterious descriptions of what he sees, and repeatedly apologizes to the reader for being unable to describe them more adequately due to their strangeness.
7/19/2012
I've never read a book quite like this. It's bizarre...
7/22/2012
...possibly the most bizarre book I've ever read as an adult. Imaginative and mysterious.
8/4/2012
Almost finished. Much of this novel's content, especially in the last chapters, is essentially poetry. It starts to feel very much like a C.S. Lewis fictional work (most specifically, Perelandra); it should, because Lewis considered George MacDonald a spiritual mentor, even depicting MacDonald as his guide in the spiritual world in The Great Divorce. I have felt tempted to compare Lilith to The Great Divorce, but the plot isn't similar enough.
8/12/12
On top of everything else, this book will add some very obscure words to your vocabulary, including eidolon, chrysoprase, and cenotaph.
Good quotations from Lilith:"Never a sound awoke; the darkness was one with the silence, and the silence was the terror."
"Thou shalt die out of death into life."
"The darkness knows neither the light nor itself..."
"So much was ours ere ever the first sun rose upon our freedom: what must not the eternal day bring with it!"
"See every little flower straighten its stalk, lift up its neck, and with outstretched head stand expectant: something more than the sun, greater than the light, is coming, is coming—none the less surely coming that it is long upon the road! What matters to-day, or to-morrow, or ten thousand years to Life himself, to Love himself! He is coming, is coming, and the necks of all humanity are stretched out to see him come! Every morning will they thus outstretch themselves, every evening will they droop and wait—until he comes.—Is this but an air-drawn vision? When he comes, will he indeed find them watching thus?"
"Man dreams and desires; God broods and wills and quickens."
"When a man dreams his own dream, he is the sport of his dream; when Another gives it him, that Other is able to fulfil it."