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Alrighty everyone! A lot of you don’t know me but I would love it if you would join in on this discussion anyway 😀

I’ve seen a lot of talk about “clean” christian writing, and found it rather interesting how everyone seems to have a very different idea of the word “clean.”  Some have used it a good sense, saying that they wished there was more clean books that they could share with their friends and family. Others (a LOT more others, at least from what I have seen) have used it a bad sense, saying that clean stories are too bland, too sickeningly sweet, too easily resolved, and pretty much just uninteresting.

Of course I understand that people have different standards of what they would read/write in their personal life, but I don’t think that’s the problem here. You and I might disagree with the types of things we read, but that doesn’t mean that the definition of the word changes, does it?

I just think there may be a misconception of the  word “clean” and what it means in a book. Either that or I am way out of the loop when it comes to the writing world. 🙂

Here’s what I always thought a “clean” book was: no sex/lust scenes (obviously), going easy on describing kisses, and having little to no swear/crude words (I leave that one open a little more because I know there’s a debate around here about it…anyway). So…pretty straight forward?

Oh and by the way, NOT having those things in a book doesn’t stop you from tackling mature, hard topics like adultery, mental illnesses, abuse, politics, terrorism, or anything else along those lines. It sometimes bothers me that people associate those things with “unclean” books. That’s not what makes books unclean, in my opinion. It just makes the books more for mature audiences—and they often can be beautifully deep if done in the right way.

(But please don’t dirty up my book in order to teach how bad something is…come on now. You’re just starting to take part in the worldliness you claim to avoid.)

Anyway. So that’s why I’m making this topic, so the Story Embers world at large can discuss what they think the world  “clean” means. Have fun friends! I shall disappear into the mist from whence I came. 😀

*throws rose petals at you and leaves*