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Why Can a Book’s Movie Be So Bad? When an Adaptation Goes Astray

Why do adaptations of books to movies and other media sometimes fail? It isn’t always because they didn’t follow the book closely enough. · Heather M. Elliott

Top Ten Most Original Speculative Fiction Story Worlds, Part 2

What are the top ten most original story worlds (or settings) for overtly Christian authors? This post lists ten possible choices! · Travis Perry

Realism And Twenty-first Century Storytelling

Perhaps the twenty-first century version of realism is another way in which we are not addressing spiritual issues realistically. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

What Does it Mean for a Story to be “Christian”?

There are at lease nine different ways to define a story’s relationship or lack thereof to Christianity (we’re counting 🙂 ). And that’s not all. · Travis Perry

A Dark Little Tale

This dark little tale demonstrates – all the more powerfully for its lack of greatness – the power of stories. · Shannon McDermott

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. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Fantasy That Works

Next time you read a fantasy, see how it measures in these areas: premise, conflict, realistic characters that act, a dense story world, a story that says something important. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Do You Want to Go?

This is the question that every book and show and movie asks. · Shannon McDermott

Entering Storyland: Why We Become Immersed in the Tales We Read

Stories have a common thread running through them. They’re not real, but in our minds, it’s as if they are. · Zac Totah

An Unheralded Significance

Show me a person who thinks that the Old Testament is only tales for children, and I will show you a person who hasn’t read the Old Testament. · Shannon McDermott

Good Character(s)

What makes a good character is ultimately disconnected from what makes a good person. · Shannon McDermott

What Should A Story’s Agenda Be?

Rather than being driven by specific agendas, stories should seek to be bold, daring, and most importantly, authentic. · Zac Totah

Will Storytelling Undergo A Huge Change In The Near Future?

In the future, writing five-minute stories might be the best way to attract a generation accustomed to Tweets, brief text messages, and fragmented pieces of information. A generation that may well cause us to rethink how we tell stories. · Zac Totah

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

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. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

A Matter Of Interpretation

All fiction—and especially speculative fiction—may easily mean different things to different people. · Shannon McDermott

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”. · Shannon McDermott

7 Top Ways To Ensure Your Story Is Preachy

You know you want your Christian story to preach. What are the best ways to ensure that outcome? Here are 7 top methods. · R. L. Copple

Story Weariness

I’ve had other instances of story weariness, which I guess I’ll define as familiarity with a story to the point that another rendition seems needless and unappealing. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Divergent, Great Stories, And Good Writing

The book series was one more hot story that had fans craving the next book and the next. Granted, though the first book opened as #6 on the NY Times best-selling list, it didn’t reach the stature of Twilight or Hunger Games and certainly not of Harry Potter. Still, it had a loyal and avid following. · Rebecca LuElla Miller
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