Questions for fictional christian writers

[breno785au]

To all the writers out there, I been thinking about this today. When you write a story that has 'christian' themes running through it, are the themes purposely intentional or do you find that you accidently came up with themes throughout the story? For example Narnia, CS Lewis purposely thought of things to represent?

BTW please don't express your views on CS Lewis or his writings, this is not the thread for that.​

 

[Tintin]

It depends on the writer. I'm a Christian, so when I write, my stories reflect my faith. I'm not a fan of the super-preachy stories - come to the altar etc. but it's natural for your faith to just come through what you write. Don't sermonise, just let your faith breathe through the story.

 

[breno785au]

Thanks Tintin, I'm asking because I find that when I think of stories, I see themes running thru them, their accidental. I find I don't sit back and go, okay so this is going to represent Christ etc. It just flows.

 

[mystdancer50]

When I write Christian fiction, it is purposeful and very seldom allegory. I just set out with the intent to show something of Christ and wrap my story and characters around it.

 

[Ace85]

breno, as a writer, shouldn't you know the difference between there, their and they're? Sorry, this is something that frustrates me - it's my area of perfectionism.

 

[Animus]

To all the writers out there, I been thinking about this today. When you write a story that has 'christian' themes running through it, are the themes purposely intentional or do you find that you accidently came up with themes throughout the story? For example Narnia, CS Lewis purposely thought of things to represent?

BTW please don't express your views on CS Lewis or his writings, this is not the thread for that.​

I wrote a short story about envy a while ago and I found that with the central theme being envy that characters similar to God and Satan just came about naturally, as there was a character trying to encourage the protagonist's envy and a character trying to discourage it. I think that if you have a good idea for the moral of the story that you need not think of symbols and characters too much in advance, you'll naturally steer the story in that direction where possible.

 

[breno785au]

breno, as a writer, shouldn't you know the difference between there, their and they're? Sorry, this is something that frustrates me - it's my area of perfectionism.

Yes I do, just that im more relaxed with my grammar on forums

I wrote a short story about envy a while ago and I found that with the central theme being envy that characters similar to God and Satan just came about naturally, as there was a character trying to encourage the protagonist's envy and a character trying to discourage it. I think that if you have a good idea for the moral of the story that you need not think of symbols and characters too much in advance, you'll naturally steer the story in that direction where possible.

That sounds great. This thread is doing better than I thought