Ok. This weekend I had to do some recovery. Just got back onto solid foods mainly potato soup. Thanks to the old man that sells redskinned potatoes, vidalia onions, and the largest, sweetest tomatoes I have ever smelled. (He keeps me healthy.)
Anyway...
So I had a huge chunk of time, while laying in bed and squeezing all the rubber out of my trashcan to ponder this question:
Can Christian Fiction be plot driven and have a deep enough structure to deal with our faith in a real and timely manner?
Yea. I know. Frank Peretti's Monster.
But I'm not talking a couple running from an evil in the woods. I'm talking about characters finding themselves in situations that they are partly responsible for, situations that both parties have good reasons to be in and thus, lies the main conflict (i.e. a pro life senator alienates a daughter suffering complications from having a secret abortion, who was raped by his brother, or church member being alienated from his church congregation for being a democrat)
Are these type of books too boring, too deep, or too political to write about? Or do we want to just know what happens next on the surface?
Writing to see what the end gon' be,
Dee
The Pruning Principle
2 years ago
3 comments:
They sound like books I'd love to read!
The scenarios described may work if the writer does not assume that he/she must have a neat and tidy solution to the conflict. To be honest, they do sound a little boring too.
I agree, anonymous. But if we wrote a novel that was a balance between the two, would it be more interesting? Or are we--even we, Christians--only concerned about what happens next, regardless if our souls are fed in the process?
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