Lin

@northerner

Thanks for the advice! I do appreciate the value of his original, uncorrupted sources that he used to write his books.

@lin

Yes! 😀

@lin

Oh, it is so awesome to have you on this topic! I’m so grateful for your straightforwardness and honesty. I really admire that in you! I want to write like a super long reply, but I don’t have a ton of time right now, so I will just say that one of the best his-fic (like, very historically accurate, amazing) authors I know of is G A Henty.…[Read more]

@lin Haha, noted. xD Thanks.

Aaaah congrats! 😀 😀

@slisby Phew, that does sound like a lot! 😮 😮 (You got dis )

@lin oooh, that looks great! Thanks for sharing, Lin!

@the-fledgling-artist

Thank you so much for the list! She actually does have a soft side, and becomes a healer eventually(well, she’s still a warrior with impressive swordsmanship as well, but she becomes a healer to help her friends and new-found family since they all have a stubborn mentality when it comes to taking care of themselves…. let’s…[Read more]

@jbstanhope @lin @eden-anderson

So sorry I didn’t reply sooner guys!! But thank you so much for your insight! It has been invaluable. I genuinely appreciate the time and effort you put into helping me. Sadly I don’t have time to formulate individual responses (yet), but I just wanted to get that out there. ❤️

@lin

I totally agree with you about writing magic, I’ve decided never to use magic but to define anything that is “supernatural” as either a gift of the Creator or something he has set up to work in that world, or something of the enemy, as I believe that it reflects the real world. I think Andrew Peterson’s description of how all that works…[Read more]

@lin Yay! I thought about doing a few animal ones too. We’ll see. x”D

I’ll be root’n for ya!

@i-david, @lin, @thewirelessblade, @ericawordsmith, @introverted-elf, @bama-rose, @emgc, @dekreel

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?!?

@lin

Looks like I’m not really needed here…😄

( @ericawordsmith Hey, girl! 🤗 I feel like I haven’t seen you around here for awhile! How’s life? Did you know me and @evelyn were able to meet up?)

Great question @lin! I have had to take a lot of time to wrestle through this one…

In a nutshell (because I really could take a deep breath and let out a very long rant on this one XD) I believe that fantasy is a mirror or reality as the author decides to portray it. Through fantasy, you can explore an idea in a different way and help the…[Read more]

@lin

Aw, I admire you for asking! And I agree with you (and Ashira). 😀

That is one of the most major reasons I do not write fantasy, either. I cannot equate fantasy with the revealed God of the Bible who is so holy, sovereign, and omnipresent. Besides which, I am a Christian writer, and my goal is to glorify my Lord and Father in what I…[Read more]

@lin Yes, that’s a good point. I think it’s something that intimidated me until I tried it. And if you don’t want to try it, that’s perfectly fine.

In my story, I never have characters see God. I think that makes it much easier. They may be aware of his presence, but I work with God’s voice, not his image. In this case, I’m only working with…[Read more]

@lin This is a really good question. **incoming ramble, please assume crash positions**

When I first began writing fantasy, I adamantly believed that incorporating a “God” character in my story was a Bad Idea In All Caps. The reasoning behind this is that I, as a finite human, could never portray God in all His complexity. This thought was only…[Read more]

@lin I think you are right on.  This is on of the main reasons I decided to write his-fic instead.  I personally feel making up God in a different way is too dangerous ground for me to walk on.  I dont want to be condemned by God someday because I led people or myself astray by the way I portrayed Him.  There is one WIP I have that is “fa…[Read more]

@lin

I don’t think there needs to explicitly be a God figure in every story. My goal in my writing is more of to write stories that challenge the many common assumptions people have about life in this world (i.e. that money/romance/science/whatever idol they have will make them happy or solve their problems) to encourage non-believers to think…[Read more]

@lin So, in essence, you’re worried writing God in a fantasy story could be idolatrous?

Yeah, that’ possible. However, I’ve never seen any significant difference between expressing who God is through a story and expressing who he is through a sermon. There’s a chance of idolatry in a sermon too.

So you need to be careful that whatever you say…[Read more]

@lin Oh wow, this is an excellent question. I really have to think about this.

.. I’m looking forward to everyone else’s thoughts on this but here are mine. (As uninformed as they are.)

Personally, I think this can be a problem, but it doesn’t have to.  Imo if you are genuinely doing it because you think it’s the BEST way to tell the story,…[Read more]

@lin @evelyn Thank you! It was really good! It was a lot of work, and at times it was kind of hard, but it was well worth it. I would totally go back and do it again. 😀 I feel like I learned so much there, and I think I have a better understanding of who God is now. It’s not like a heard a bunch of stuff I had never heard before, but my…[Read more]