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Names: Bryan Davis
Realm Makers 2019: One Hundred Graces, part 2
E. Stephen Burnett steps back to those days of yester-week and recalls twenty-five more graces God gave through Realm Makers 2019.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Star Wars And Christian Fiction
The idea seems to be that I, being a Christian, will quite naturally write from a Christian worldview. But is that true?
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Great Secondary Characters
Great secondary characters are larger than life. The story is not about them really, but they add so much, they make the story so much richer, that they become as memorable as the protagonist.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Realm Makers: Go Beyond The Blogs
Realm Makers offered more than cosplay and shared fandom. It gave deep doctrinal magic and a chance for Christian fans to better âincarnateâ their love of fantastic fiction.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Presenting The Final Five
Voting is underway to determine the winner of the 2013 Clive Staples Award. We’re down to the five finalists.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Realm Makers: Itâs Not Just For Writers
Whatâs new with the Aug. 2-3, 2013 Realm Makers conference for Christian speculative readers and writers? Also: new discount for Speculative Faith readers.
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Rebecca P. Minor
The Clive Staples Award For Christian Speculative Fiction
For those in the US, blessings on this Memorial Day. For all of us, an update on the Clive Staples Award–specifically three announcements
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
What Constitutes âDerivativeâ?
Some scholars claim J. R. R. Tolkien owed a debt of influence where he claimed none. I find this criticism to be thoroughly ironic because the great accusation against writers of high fantasy today is that their work is derivative, a mere shadow of, you guessed it, J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Shining Light In âThe Dark Knightâ
âYouâll hunt me; youâll condemn me,â Batman says at the end of The Dark Knight. âThatâs what needs to happen.â Some Christians cried: âNo itâs not! Heroes donât lie!” They miss the point.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Mythopoeia Or … It’s Opposite
Mythopoeia, according to Wikipedia, is “a narrative genre … where a fictional mythology is created … The authors in this genre integrate traditional mythological themes and archetypes into fiction.” When I first heard the term, I was confounded. Which is it, I wondered, the creation of a myth or the integration of traditional myth into a new story?
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Rebecca LuElla Miller