I'm sure someone's asked this before but how do your faith & your writing impact on each other? Or don't they?
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Faith & writing.
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Tariel
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I wish I had the time right now to delve into this topic thoroughly, but I regrettably don't. But the simple answer is this:
There is no way that my faith and my witing CANNOT impact each other. My faith feeds my writing and manifests itself through my words. My writing trains me to think deeper. It also teaches me to devote everything to God, beause what HE can do with my writing is far beyond anything I can do.
My testimony and the story of my life as a writer coincide quite nicely.
There is no way that my faith and my witing CANNOT impact each other. My faith feeds my writing and manifests itself through my words. My writing trains me to think deeper. It also teaches me to devote everything to God, beause what HE can do with my writing is far beyond anything I can do.
My testimony and the story of my life as a writer coincide quite nicely.
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Any time you get time to persue this further get back to me.
I had to become very inventive in dealing with some things in my writing.
Also what I had in mind & how God
is currently using my skills turned out to not be the same thing at all.
I had to become very inventive in dealing with some things in my writing.
Also what I had in mind & how God
is currently using my skills turned out to not be the same thing at all.
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ElijahFalling
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The main way is that I can use my writing to promote ideals that I feel are under-represented in the churches. I know that should what I'm working on be published, it will have influence on other people's beliefs. I would like to be able to use that influence for good.
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Cyprian31
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As I am currently writing my first novel, this question has some import to me. Simply put, my writing is influenced by my faith, which is a product of my worldview. What makes this so interesting, however, is my chosen field is science fiction. How does the existence of God impact these stories? Does this mean I cannot use all the various Macguffins of sci-fi? Perish the thought! I generally have one character who represents my personal views, a character I can use to say what I believe without cramming a ton of philosophy down a readers throat. Remember, Tolkien, Lewis and even stephen King all use their own Christian beliefs heavily in their work. (For King, rereadThe Stand, the Dark Tower and salem's Lot)
God bless.
God bless.
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ThinkOnIt
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For me faith and writing go together and are inseparable. Someone once said that every word you write has the potential to win someone for Christ, even if what you write is not Christian writing. As long as you write prayerfully, listening to the Lord's leading, then everything you write is used for His purpose.
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I think your faith has a great impact on your writing. My first novel was a Christian vampire novel. The main character begins the story with little faith, but by the end of the story she must use her God given gifts and faith to conquer the bad guys. Good vs evil is a theme throughout all of my stories.
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We write how we feel. I understood that by reading a few articles, I found accidentally while browsing for something else on articlempire . I saw the Religion and Spirituality section and decided to go through it. I can say that we really write with our faith and how we live it!
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