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Frank Creed: At the age seven, his divorced, working mother
sent him to a creative writing program at the local library. From
this tender age he knew that he wanted to be an author. In
High School, Marsha Stewart, his creative writing teacher,
coached him to a first-place tie at the UW-Whitewater Literary
contest, where hundreds of students from three states competed.
His thirty-three years of life since then have been filled with the tough times
and tragedies necessary to torture a serious writer's soul. He dropped out of
college to elope. He worked no job that paid more than $8.50/hour until
1995. Divorced by twenty-two, he
lived as a hedonist until his mid-twenties. It was then that a
friend introduced him to the writings of Biblical Philosopher,
Francis Schaeffer.
Frank had only been a reader of fantasy and science fiction novels, but
Schaeffer's application of thesis-antithesis/ classical-reasoning to the sphere
of morality changed Mr. Creed forever. His reading-list suddenly launched
into theology, philosophy and history of western civilization.
It was in this year that his sister joined a Grotto of Anton
LaVey’s Church of Satan. Her soul at stake, Mr. Creed
entered into a written debate with her Satanic High Priest.
During this time, he volunteered an article to the Grotto's
desktop published magazine, Diabolic Creation. After
publication, he exchanged letters with readers who'd responded
to his work.
In the years that followed, Mr Creed debated a variety of
worldviews on internet discussion boards, and has since then,
found no credible counter to the Cosmological or Axiological
arguments for the existence of God.
On May 9th of 1998, Frank Creed survived a high-speed head-
on collision that broke him in half and induced a severe
closed head injury. After living in a delusional state for two
weeks, it was the doctors opinion that with years of therapy,
Mr. Creed would only recover sixty percent of his mental
capacity.
Then his pastor visited.
They enjoyed a lucid conversation, and prayed. When Frank
Creed awoke the next morning his delusional state had been
healed. A fake hip and pelvis likely dooms him to a wheelchair
by age fifty, and his physical condition severely challenged him
in his profession as an auto-worker at Subaru of Indiana automotive.
Frank feels not only that the troubles in his life have
refined him as a writer, but the closed head injury was a
blessing in disguise. Before the auto-accident he’d begun his
fantasy novella White Iron, which meandered and jammed, but, post-
accident, everything flowed. The course of his life at that
moment changed. He even married his editor!
"The influence of Francis Schaeffer, Ravi Zacharias and C. S. Lewis has
been profound. How’s this: collectively, I owe my salvation to these men.
However, I have a twelfth grade education and am self-educated. It took re-
reading for me to be able to grasp their Theological concepts. I looked
again at Lewis’ high prose fiction and understood my purpose in life."
Frank Creed
sent him to a creative writing program at the local library. From
this tender age he knew that he wanted to be an author. In
High School, Marsha Stewart, his creative writing teacher,
coached him to a first-place tie at the UW-Whitewater Literary
contest, where hundreds of students from three states competed.
His thirty-three years of life since then have been filled with the tough times
and tragedies necessary to torture a serious writer's soul. He dropped out of
college to elope. He worked no job that paid more than $8.50/hour until
1995. Divorced by twenty-two, he
lived as a hedonist until his mid-twenties. It was then that a
friend introduced him to the writings of Biblical Philosopher,
Francis Schaeffer.
Frank had only been a reader of fantasy and science fiction novels, but
Schaeffer's application of thesis-antithesis/ classical-reasoning to the sphere
of morality changed Mr. Creed forever. His reading-list suddenly launched
into theology, philosophy and history of western civilization.
It was in this year that his sister joined a Grotto of Anton
LaVey’s Church of Satan. Her soul at stake, Mr. Creed
entered into a written debate with her Satanic High Priest.
During this time, he volunteered an article to the Grotto's
desktop published magazine, Diabolic Creation. After
publication, he exchanged letters with readers who'd responded
to his work.
In the years that followed, Mr Creed debated a variety of
worldviews on internet discussion boards, and has since then,
found no credible counter to the Cosmological or Axiological
arguments for the existence of God.
On May 9th of 1998, Frank Creed survived a high-speed head-
on collision that broke him in half and induced a severe
closed head injury. After living in a delusional state for two
weeks, it was the doctors opinion that with years of therapy,
Mr. Creed would only recover sixty percent of his mental
capacity.
Then his pastor visited.
They enjoyed a lucid conversation, and prayed. When Frank
Creed awoke the next morning his delusional state had been
healed. A fake hip and pelvis likely dooms him to a wheelchair
by age fifty, and his physical condition severely challenged him
in his profession as an auto-worker at Subaru of Indiana automotive.
Frank feels not only that the troubles in his life have
refined him as a writer, but the closed head injury was a
blessing in disguise. Before the auto-accident he’d begun his
fantasy novella White Iron, which meandered and jammed, but, post-
accident, everything flowed. The course of his life at that
moment changed. He even married his editor!
"The influence of Francis Schaeffer, Ravi Zacharias and C. S. Lewis has
been profound. How’s this: collectively, I owe my salvation to these men.
However, I have a twelfth grade education and am self-educated. It took re-
reading for me to be able to grasp their Theological concepts. I looked
again at Lewis’ high prose fiction and understood my purpose in life."
Frank Creed
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"Frank Creed is a Fundamentalist Christian and writer of fantasy and sci-fi ( Speculative Fiction ). Frank Creed has a Christian Speculative Fiction novella
published in Tales for the Thrifty Barbarian: An Anthology of High Fantasy and three short stories in Light at the Edge of Darkness. His Christian cyberpunk
novel Flashpoint will be released in September 2007. Frank is also founder of "Project Underground, a cooperative multi-artistic venture using the setting of
Flashpoint. An avid fan of sci-fi and fantasy, Speculative Fiction is the vehicle that Frank uses to deliver his beliefs and spiritual philosophy to readers. This
"Lost Genre" remains very controversial in the Christian Fundamentalist community and Frank Creed and other authors of Christian Speculative Fiction are the
new kids on the block. They will likely spread the Christian message to a greater number of people because they are willing to follow His voice and use the
gifts He has given. To this end, Frank has created the "Lost Genre Guild" an organization to help promote Biblical speculative fiction and assist fans in locating
the best in the genre."
Editor,
The Writers' Cafe Press
published in Tales for the Thrifty Barbarian: An Anthology of High Fantasy and three short stories in Light at the Edge of Darkness. His Christian cyberpunk
novel Flashpoint will be released in September 2007. Frank is also founder of "Project Underground, a cooperative multi-artistic venture using the setting of
Flashpoint. An avid fan of sci-fi and fantasy, Speculative Fiction is the vehicle that Frank uses to deliver his beliefs and spiritual philosophy to readers. This
"Lost Genre" remains very controversial in the Christian Fundamentalist community and Frank Creed and other authors of Christian Speculative Fiction are the
new kids on the block. They will likely spread the Christian message to a greater number of people because they are willing to follow His voice and use the
gifts He has given. To this end, Frank has created the "Lost Genre Guild" an organization to help promote Biblical speculative fiction and assist fans in locating
the best in the genre."
Editor,
The Writers' Cafe Press
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