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Topics: Realism
The Messages of Black Horror Films
Black horror films have been around for decades with their popularity spawning about every twenty years. Black horror films have a dual purpose – to tell a story and to address a social issue.
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Parker J. Cole
On Canceling the ‘Baby-Eating’ Baby Yoda
What happens when fandom and cancel culture collide with a misplaced sense of morality?
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Parker J. Cole
Free Original Storyworld Ideas, Part 6: Nanites in Space Weapons and Aliens
Nanites could easily be part of any science fiction future and probably should be featured in stories much more than they are. Here’s some cool ideas that relate to nanites–even a few for fantasy writers!
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Travis Perry
The Way It Should Be
One lazy evening a while back, I was scrolling through the movies on Amazon Prime and came across an indie film called Coherence. A quick search on Google pulled up favorable reviews, so I gave it a shot. I’m glad […]
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Mark Carver
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.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
One in a Million
What if parallel worlds do exist? Does that mean there is a world out there where Adam didn’t sin?
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Mark Carver
Who Wants to Kill Christian Fiction?
Right or wrong, people keep claiming Christian fiction will die. Who’s guilty of wanting to kill it?
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E. Stephen Burnett
Why Does ‘I Can Only Imagine’ Back Away from Redemption?
Does the movie I Can Only Imagine cut redemption short by not fully portraying evil? Do other Christian stories also cheat redemption in the same way?
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Travis Perry
Realism And Twenty-first Century Storytelling—A Reprise
I think there’s something else not particularly real in twenty-first century stories, no matter how real the computer generated characters might appear. We could chalk this up to “that’s just movies” if it weren’t for the fact that screen writing is beginning to dominate the way we write novels, too.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Dude, Where’s My Apocalypse?
Despite what preppers and conspiracy theorists and morons who drive vehicles with “Zombie Response Team” decals might imagine, there is nothing cool about a global nuclear apocalypse.
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Mark Carver
There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
Has technology lived up to its promise?
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Mark Carver
We Might Have Guessed
Many people have been wildly successful in art while showing a flagrant disregard for realism.
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Shannon McDermott
The Need For Diversity In Christian Fiction
The narrow approach to diversity makes itself painfully evident in Christian fiction. Why? The answer is simple. Diversity is too edgy.
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Zac Totah
Realism And Twenty-first Century Storytelling
I think there’s something else not particularly real in twenty-first century stories, no matter how real the computer generated characters might appear. We could chalk this up to “that’s just movies” if it weren’t for the fact that screen writing is beginning to dominate the way we write novels, too. I’ll characterize this unrealistic phenomenon as too much conflict.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
A Human Constant
One unrealistic element of modern fiction is the scarcity of prayer.
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Shannon McDermott
Fantasy, Theology, and The Depiction Of Evil
In contrast to reality fiction, fantasy can have evil show up in whatever imagined form, but inevitably, the real truth about evil comes out: it is opposed to good. That’s the heart of evil.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Hope And Hopelessness In Speculative Fiction
When the imagination is separated from spiritual reality, it seems to stall on the bleak and the horrible.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
A Whole New World
One of the most common pieces of writing advice is “Write what you know.” I took a big risk and wrote about something I didn’t know, and my eyes and mind were opened.
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Mark Carver
Realism and The Christian Artist
What makes the work Christian is not the bad that happens, but the good that comes out of it.
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C. E. Laureano
Unrealism In Art
Today I am going to share a list of unrealistic things in fiction. And by
unrealistic
, I mean in the absolute sense of “not like reality”.
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Shannon McDermott
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