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  • The Fledgling Artist replied to the topic On writing God in a story in the forum General Writing Discussions 7 years, 3 months ago

    @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, and explore the themes you wanna tell/explore then you should do it. If you’re only twisting it to be a fantasy, or sticking a God-like figure in just for the sake of writing what you want to write/ or making it ‘Christian’ than you should seriously consider adapting your story, or just dropping it altogether for something else (or in some cases, maybe  dropping writing completely.)

    .. That’s a hard thing to do. I won’t act like it’s not. But sometimes, I think serving God to the best of our abilities means dropping what we think we would rather be doing.

    My prayer for this thread and anyone reading through it is that everything said, and every conclusion drawn would be for God’s glory.

    If anyone disagrees with what I’ve said feel free to call me out, or just ask any questions. I don’t wanna come off like I have this all figured out. I’m probably more in Lin’s boat then I sound like.

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