as a Christian, I am told to wait and pray, but with all the **** that is going on, it just makes me squirm, and I need to find a way to channel my thoughts

and as I said, I have plenty of ideas, and always finding inspiration, but they are only bits of chain, they need to be linked together

I can relate with that

I can relate with this as well

I always want to create something beautiful and God-honoring but I'm unable to make the beauty fit inside of a story

and before I forget, was this chat made today? I haven't seen it before

yep!

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)