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Theophanies and Suffering in Christian Fantasy
Itâs been a mainstay of skeptics since—well, shoot—since the beginning of time. Forget the skeptics; itâs been a weapon of the Enemyâs since the beginning.
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Nathan Lumbatis
From The Writers’ Tool Box: How Important Are Details?
Do the details in fiction matter? Actually, yes, they do. The details give the story a sense of credibility.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Meet The Parents
Thereâs been a quiet trend, at least in some of the popular fiction Iâve read, of parents who are killed off or written as weak and flaky.
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Amy Davis
End-Of-The-Year Winter Writing Challenge
Feedback continues though the Challenge is now closed to new submissions.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Realism And Twenty-first Century Stories
If all characters are victims of disaster, I suggest readers or viewers stop caring and start looking for the âout.â Will the character die and come back? Have a narrow escape? Have a death that only looks like death? In truth, all the arguing and betrayal and refusal becomesâpredictable and boring and unrealistic. Soon the characters seem more like caricatures because none acts with nobility or courage or hope. All display their flawed selves with so little inner struggle. And this, weâve come to believe, is realistic.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Dark Is The Stain: The Fast
Just as Iâve learned thereâs many ways to fast, so there are many ways to prioritize so as to focus on writing productivity.
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Kaci Hill
Bringing The Personal To The Universal
Great fiction is made up of themes: Love and longing, coming of age, voyage and return, fathers, sons, daughters, mothers, overcoming the monster, death, birth, and more. These are universals, themes that can be, on one level or another, understood by any man or woman.
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Anne Elisabeth Stengl
Readers And Writers
Special thanks to all those who participated in Spec Faith’s Shredding, Round Two. I couldn’t help but think as I read through what everyone had to say, how vital it is for writers to hear from readers, not just other writers.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Are You Hooked?
Not long ago, I discussed the “It Factor,” that intangible something that sets a work of fiction apart and gets people to notice and talk and read. One thing most writing instructors agree on is that a novel opening needs to hook readers into the story.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Five Reasons You Should Write Contemporary Fiction
I love speculative fiction. The first movie I remember seeing (at about age three or four) was the movie Them. I had a Darth Vader poster looming over my bed, and glow-in-the-dark vampire teeth on my bedside table. The first […]
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Matt Mikalatos
Good Versus Mediocre
I found myself asking, Is one person’s good book another person’s mediocre fare? And if so, is there in reality a standard of art writers should be aiming for and readers should be looking to support?
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Rebecca LuElla Miller