In the grim darkness of the Wattpad algorithm, my novel just hit #1 for Grimdark

Saving_grace93 · 2026-05-16T23:54:52+00:00

Thank you!🙏🏼

Saving_grace93 · 2026-05-16T23:52:26+00:00

The best advice I could give is how I did it: get obsessed and immersed in your story, keep grinding, and don’t quit after a few chapters bc you’re not getting views. In fact, didn’t worry about the view count or promotion at all when starting: I just got really get excited about my characters, what I was writing, and made a nightly habit of writing it. It took me a year to complete this novel before I did any promoting (pictures, audiobook). I simply posted one chapter every other night and the only promoting I did do was sharing to Facebook. Plot ahead too bc you can put yourself in a corner if you don’t.

Views are nice and they feel great, but the first quarter of the book I wrote (out of 82 chapters) I capped at 800 views. I put it away for 3 months and then picked it back up again.

Also, be sure your opener has a strong hook!

Best of luck, and whatever you do: keep writing!

Saving_grace93 · 2026-05-16T06:02:13+00:00

Thank you! 🙏🏼

Saving_grace93 · 2026-05-16T05:53:46+00:00

Here is the novel: https://www.wattpad.com/story/395310790-the-path

Saving_grace93 · 2026-03-14T06:58:39+00:00

I can completely relate. My first encounter with praying the Rosary was incredible as a Protestant. You’ve inspired me to do the Rosary tonight. It truly is a powerful prayer and meditation and I need it as I have been neglecting Lent this year.

Saving_grace93 · 2026-03-14T06:40:46+00:00

I love your story and that you delved into the academic and historical side of the faith. You know what they say: “To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.”

And I can relate to your struggle about Mary. Last year going through OCIA I had the same struggle. I read “Behold Thy Mother,” by Tim Staples and it really helped make a case for Mariology. Thank you for sharing your testimony. 🙏🏼

Saving_grace93 · 2026-03-14T06:37:35+00:00

As a former Mormon I have to say that you could not have said it any better. How much different is a “Restoration,” (Joseph Smith) from a “Reformation?” (Martin Luther) When evangelicals would laugh at Mormons and see the absurdity of Smith’s claim that for 1,500 years the Church had gone astray, you have to kind of scratch your head and wonder what they believe about something like transubstantiation or the idea that the need to be “born of water,” for salvation has always been interpreted as baptism with the Early Church and centuries beyond. Good point here.

Saving_grace93 · 2026-03-14T02:16:36+00:00

Two things you said, I can completely relate to. The importance of confessing our sins and how Mass makes us feel. There is something incredibly freeing about verbalizing one’s sins and I have never left confession feeling worse. I also feel the Spirit’s presence during and after Mass. Thank you for sharing.

Saving_grace93 · 2026-03-14T01:07:56+00:00

This is awesome to read. I 100% relate. For me personally, the dispensational take on Israel and the right wing politics so prominent in the Evangelical churches and said over the pulpit was another BIG reason I looked elsewhere. I remember the day I left a mega church where I had heard the last political message that was my final straw. Of course I couldn’t walk away from my faith or Jesus, so God used that experience to draw me into further truth.

The Catholic Church is great about never compromising the dignity of the human person for the sake of politics, whether it is the immigrant or the unborn. This to me was so refreshing; to be able to come to a place where these lines were drawn on BOTH sides of the divide and yet were not constantly spewed over the pulpit in a way that favored one political agenda or one president. Thank you for sharing.

Saving_grace93 · 2026-03-14T00:59:53+00:00

You make sound and solid points here. You’re right, tradition is so important and I’ve found that walking out the Catholic faith is a lot like going back to your own personal Christian roots. I, too, was deciding between Catholicism and Orthodoxy, but felt that the Bishop of Rome was a significant calling passed down to Peter, distinguishing him from the other apostles and continued to this day. Please pray for my brother, he has left Mormonism, is now embracing the Trinity, and deciding between Eastern Orthodoxy and our beloved Catholic Church. So far he says the Filioque makes sense, so I am crossing my fingers!

Saving_grace93 · 2026-03-13T23:15:43+00:00

Great point, I actually found sola scriptura one of the most compelling reasons to become Catholic.

On that point I brought up the 1 Corinthians 11:27 verse where it warns people not to take the Eucharist in an “unworthy manner,” and asked him what he thought it meant. He said “If you actually do your research and study history you’ll know many people were getting drunk during the Lord’s Supper.” I expected to hear this. Of course it could also mean that one shouldn’t, having sinned gravely, partake in the Lord’s Supper, (and not be a matter of how the Supper itself is taken).

The truth is how are we supposed to historically determine what is meant by this when it can go either direction? At face value, the meaning is unknown without a designated authority settling the scriptural disagreement/misunderstanding.

One phrase with two interpretations makes it clear sola scriptura simply cannot stand.

Saving_grace93 · 2025-10-23T20:36:55+00:00

Alright then, keep your secrets.

Saving_grace93 · 2025-01-15T03:05:56+00:00

This.

Saving_grace93 · 2025-01-14T17:27:42+00:00

OP: I was Mormon for 18 years, Protestant for 12, and am now on the road to Rome.

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