awiesome!

and yeah, I get the historical fascination! I'm actually trying to figure out a story about a young Christian lumberman and a young motherless daughter he meets up in Northern Wisconsin during the logging boom

cool!

The story ends in tragedy - it's a bit of a rehash of Daniel and the Lion's den in a way except with a tragic result

but I basically only have the ending and one of the mid-way scenes down

you have a guy who's not like everyone else and unashamedly so hanging out with a girl who's in her early teens. It's platonic, but rumors spread fast. He's drowned in a river during the climax by some guys who get drunk and decide they've had enough of him

the problem is that I don't know what message I'm sending with this story

I hate when dark events are purely for entertainment and I don't want to go that dark without a good reason

especially since I'm someone who has had a very cushy life and has never been subjected to typical tragedy

YAY! New channel! <:troll_face:726878856585281557>

yup!

SAME

the other thing that's super hard for Christian writers is making sure your story actually honors God

I would like to make a story that starts like a disney princess cliche, but its a "woman" who doesn't want to be a princess, and through her journey, she finds who she truly is, and grows in her faith in God, opposing a tiranical country

but I don't know if it will come to anything

which seems super weird to most people but I can safely say, the last eight years of "writing" (roleplays, plot ideas, and the occasional R-rated fanfic) have not been God-honoring at all and usually are overly dark, packed full with controversy for the sake of it, and written with little experience of the real world

I was a shock value writer and I regret it

wasn't necessarily explicit as my peers who *definitely* didn't understand it but still was searching for intense reactions about things I didn't understand or research

that's actually pretty lit

I'd watch it

I see what you mean, and im glad I didn't go down that rode

thanks

yeah, don't xD

your writing will not only suffer because you rely on dark cliches but it will also be offensive to some

I was only called out a couple times thankfully

my work wasn't read by many

and remember, no one in the bible was perfect, except for God and Jesus ofcource

oh, 100% lol

just for me, my fear is I don't want to get distracted by my own story, misleading myself and my readers

that happens a lot too. I'm no expert (heck, I'm a beginning level writer) but have you ever gotten lost in details?

like out of the blue you just worldbuild like crazy

I bet I have

I'll go months without having written anything and then *boom*
"The plague starts with coughing up blood. Then the boils begin. It's an airborne disease and is basically the Black Death with boils."

(that's the least nasty bit)

I'm writing it for a dark (haha, said I wouldn't do that anymore but here we are) take on Cinderella

(the sisters aren't ugly, they're sick)

but yeah, I'll just suddenly write about all this stuff about carriages and towns and the people in it and then I'll write a bunch of dialogue

I’m not too confident about what I’m saying but wasn’t Edgar Allen Poe a religious man who also wrote seemingly random stories that somehow manages to include the topic of faith. It might be interesting to look at if what I’m saying is accurate but I’m not confident at all

that's actually really fascinating if its true

ok so it turns out he was sort of Christian

but not really since he rejected the Bible's teachings