What Makes Novels Mediocre?

How does sin influence our mediocre expectations? What makes reading novels a duty rather than a delight — or even makes you put down the book and refuse to read further?
— E. Stephen Burnett in October 2012 —

Reading Is Worship 8: Source Of All Stories

Scripture is the source of all stories — the story of reality, the smaller “stories” of us as real people, and the stories we subcreate. We must recall that truth when we’re discussing how our stories glorify God.
— E. Stephen Burnett in October 2012 —

Anonymizing Novel Reviews

Would Christian speculative novel reviews be more useful, even honest, if they were written anonymously? And at least for some novels, would you prefer writing reviews anonymously?
— E. Stephen Burnett in October 2012 —

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.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in October 2012 —

Check For Chips

My real question is this, can great writing and compelling stories really be marginalized?
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in October 2012 —

And The Winner Is

The winner of the Spec Faith Fall Writer Challenge is

Eugene Black

Congratulations!
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in October 2012 —

Fall Writer Challenge Finalists

In no special order, the finalist entries are re-posted below. After reading (or reviewing) them, vote in the poll to determine who will win this year’s Fall Writer Challenge.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in October 2012 —

Last Day To Pick Fall Writer Challenge Finalists

We need to pick the finalists. There are some very close races. Be sure you add your voice (in reality, what counts is your thumb up) to the decision so that we can include the three entries readers prefer.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in September 2012 —

What’s Wrong With A Little ‘Ha Ha’?

Author Ted Kluck on graciously spoofing “dispensensational” theology in general and “Left Behind” in particular, Tebow-mania, and whether Christians can Biblically spoof at all.
— Ted Kluck in September 2012 —

Now It’s The Readers’ Turn

This early stage is to determine the top three entries which will be included in next week’s poll, so visitors may hit the thumbs-up button on as many of the entries as they wish. You might ask yourself if you’d like to keep reading. If yes, then that entry might deserve a thumbs up.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in September 2012 —

Share Your Crazy Conference Stories

Here at Speculative Faith, we’re reader-centric. But for those who have attended writers’ conferences such as ACFW, what crazy stories might you share?
— E. Stephen Burnett in September 2012 —

Fall Writer Challenge

By way of reminder, here’s the way this particular challenge works: I’ll give a first line, and those who wish to accept the challenge will write what comes next–in 100 to 200 words, putting those in the comments section of this post. Readers will give thumbs up to the ones they like the most
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in September 2012 —

Circle Of Life

I hold onto my experiences, mentally filing them away. And when I write about a character in the same situation, I pull them out of my heart and mind, and live them all over again: osmosis from reality into fiction and then to the soul of a reader, the grand circle of literary life.
— Grace Bridges in September 2012 —

While I Was Away

I’m back home after a week and a half work trip in Seoul, Korea, which was a little more eventful than I would have preferred…
— Fred Warren in September 2012 —

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).
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in September 2012 —

Teaching Story Transitions 4: Early Tools For Truth

How do parents know when and how to teach children ways to discern? One possible answer is found in the trivium of the classical education system.
— Jared Moore in September 2012 —

You’re As Relevant As A Wimpy Mustache!

Here’s the funny thing about pursuing relevance–if you’re trying to be it, you probably aren’t. Coolness can’t be faked any more than singing with Auto-Tune makes you a vocalist (sorry T-Pain), or growing a handlebar mustache makes you a man (though I envy any man who can pull it off).
— Christopher Miller in August 2012 —

When The Rubber Hits The Road

Once again, due to the hectic-ness of life in the “real world,” I was unable to put a video together. Sorry. This is the last post I’ll be doing on amillennial eschatological theology. If you haven’t figured it out by […]
— John Otte in August 2012 —
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