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The Decision of Meaning

A story stands as it was created. · Shannon McDermott

Great Art And Story

Because fiction is first a form of communication, I think stories should pay attention to what Scripture says about our correspondence with one another. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

A Time For Generosity

The benefit of this program is that authors make more money. The downside is that that money has to come from somewhere or, rather, from someone. · Shannon McDermott

The Cult of Personality

Now everything is out there like knickers on the clothesline, blowing in the wind and practically waving to the neighbors. · Mark Carver

Who Vs. What

There is undoubtedly a cyclical and symbiotic relationship between character and plot. Who the character is determines what will happen in the story, and the events of the story shape who the character is, etc. They are both cogs that turn each other. From a writing craft perspective, this can be a very existential and convoluted discussion, so let’s take it to street level. · Mark Carver

The Meaning Of Life

It is the readers who decide what is quality fiction. It is readers who decide what will be classics or not. · R. L. Copple

Why I Put It Down

Here are my top eight reasons, in descending order, why I’m likely to put a book down and stop reading. · R. L. Copple

Finding Books

Most of us don’t choose our stories based on what’s good for us. That smacks too much like taking our medicine or eating our vegetables. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Truth In Labeling

The world isn’t helped when Christian books further confusion about the faith. · Yvonne Anderson

Scary Title Alert: The Discipline Of Reading Fiction

Readers get inoculated by “fun” fiction, and no longer approach stories as vehicles of ideas, shown not told. When we as Christians do look for meaning, we are primarily looking for a Christ figure and a picture of redemption. We rarely dig deeper. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Reading Is Worship 4: Craft-Idolatry

Before discussing industry changes, editors, and manuscript proposals, we must love God’s Story and great stories more than their craft. Otherwise we may be vulnerable to other story-related idolatries. · E. Stephen Burnett

Shallow Reasons To Support ‘Narnia’ 1

Flawed, over-“spiritual” defenses of the “Narnia” series are not only annoying, but ignore the stories’s central beauties and childlike wonder. Even worse, such approaches ultimately make readers worship God less. · E. Stephen Burnett

Imagine There’s No Christian SF Writing Blogs

Either my perception is limited or magnified, or Christian-speculative-fiction blogs really are overly focused on writers. Shouldn’t the ratios of writers’ and readers’ material be reversed? · E. Stephen Burnett

Secrets Of The Pyramid Scheme

Do most Christian speculative readers enjoy those stories because of their intrinsic value? Or do the majority of readers enjoy such reading mainly because of their own hopes to climb the pyramid and write their own novels? · E. Stephen Burnett

Beer Goggles

Reality hasn’t changed, of course, but your perceptions have. You may be in for a rude surprise when the goggles come off. · Fred Warren
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