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Ingredients Of A Good Story
Whether on blogs or in conference writing instruction or how-to writing books, it seems to me there is much more discussion about point of view and avoiding passive verb constructions and steering clear of forms of “to be” than there is about what ingredients go into a good story.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Oz Four Ways – Wicked: The Life and Times Of The Wicked Witch Of The West
This isn’t your grandfather’s Oz, not by a long shot.
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Fred Warren
Reading Is Worship 5: Identifying Weirdness-Idolatry
Brothers and sisters: loving speculative stories is not about you. Or us. Or the genre. Or, especially, Being Weird. That’s especially vital to recall after last weekend’s controversy over cosplay at the ACFW awards banquet.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Oz Four Ways: The Wizard Of Oz
Oz as you’ve never seen it before!
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Fred Warren
Oz, Four Ways: Introduction
Why? Because, because, because, because, because…
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Fred Warren
Fantastic Tropes and Where To Find Them
Every story has tropes. Christian speculative stories are no exception. Here’s a tongue-in-cheek collection.
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Kessie Carroll
Onward, Words!
God places value on words. He is a Writer, through clear instruction, stories, and more. Thus, our words and stories should remind us of His.
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Yvonne Anderson
Monsters And Their Meaning
Some writers take monsters and re-envision them. Thus, vampires become love interests instead of deadly beings from which to flee (the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyers). Dragons are good instead of evil, protected from dragon hunters by an act of God (Dragons In Our Midst series by Bryan Davis). Elves are noble and wise rather than mischievous or selfish (Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings).
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Reading Is Worship 2: Experience-Worship
It’s easy to break into others’ idol factories. But for most readers, including myself, the worst potential idol in enjoying speculative stories may be experience. How is this self-defeating? What is the Biblical cure?
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E. Stephen Burnett
Stories Of Sacrifice
I think there’s something to the idea that
self-sacrifice is appealing
. C. S. Lewis was particularly good at weaving self-sacrifice into his stories. It, of course, is crucial in the (traditional) opening book of Narnia–
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
The Fairy Tale Phenomenon
Is our perception of fairy tales changing? As Dean said in his post Friday, some guys feel as if their “man card” is at risk if they admit to reading fairy tales. Tolkien has wars and a civilization-saving quest, outsmarting a dragon and evading goblins, but fairy tales are about saving a damsel in distress. The damsels, of course, very much want those stories told. But do guys want to read them?
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Shallow Reasons To Support ‘Narnia’ 2
Why do some force shallow, over-“spiritual” allegories on the “Narnia” stories — to the extent of claiming Aslan’s tent equals the Tabernacle, the Professor’s house equals the church, or the wardrobe equals the Bible?
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E. Stephen Burnett
Beyond Inklings Imitations 2: Stories We May Have Missed
Most of us have read C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and newer Christian speculative novels. But what authors and classics might we have missed?
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A. T. Ross
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.
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E. Stephen Burnett
‘Why Did(n’t) You Like That Story?’
What films, series, and novels do you enjoy that others despise, and which stories do you dislike that others near-unanimously praise? What possible factors lead to such differences?
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E. Stephen Burnett
What’s In A Name?
Pretty or not, names have power.
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Fred Warren
The Appeal Of Fantasy For Young Adults
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist, fights that never happened, all set against the sort of medieval background that Mark Twain thought he had discredited with “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” (excerpt from “The Dragon’s Egg”)
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Familiarity Versus Originality
Old stories, as “typical” as they are, speak to a deeper longing in all of us. We want to know that good wins. That there is hope. That love is just around the corner. Life doesn’t always demonstrate that to us, so we find ourselves at Story’s door, wanting to escape to a place where magic is still alive. To fly in the face of that child-like expectation is almost a betrayal of Story.
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Greg Mitchell
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