Some time ago, I took a college course where one of my assignments was to re-tell a Bible story. I picked the story of Elijah meeting a widow in Sidon. I recently took that assignment and reformatted it as a story for The Odyssey. You can find it here: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/eilijah-and-crazy-weird-faith
Some time ago I wrote about creating the kind of stories C.S. Lewis wrote – entertaining stories with very obvious Christian ideas. Now I’m going to talk about how to write like J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien, who famously said he hated allegory, usually wrote stories that had Christian ideas but they were express subtly, creating an …
As I noted in my previous post (Part 2), a full-fledged allegory is hard to write. The whole whole point of an allegory is that the reader may start out interested in it as a story, but by the end the reader shouldn't care about the story. The reader should be interested in the moral …
Click here for Part 1 Like symbols, allegories are details that point to something else in a story. However, there are a couple of key differences. First, allegories are more deliberate than symbols. You can enjoy or make sense of a story without picking up on all the symbols. I mentioned The Phantom of the Opera …
“Christian movies” seem to go through times when they’re especially popular. For example, the 1950’s and 60’s produced some excellent Biblical epics. Since the early 2000’s, Biblical adaptations and movies with faith-based themes have been very popular. People debate a lot of things about the new Christian movie trend, but everyone seems to agree on …
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I enjoy messing with photos and seeing what I can come up with. It's especially interesting when you're working with smartphone images, which are naturally low quality and you can create something surreal or unusual without ruining the quality. Recently I took a bunch of smartphone photographs I took of clouds during my trip …
It's become very popular to call The Chronicles of Narnia allegorical. However, as several scholars have noted, C.S. Lewis himself refuted that suggestion. He preferred to call it a "supposal." A similar argument comes up in discussions about Jesus' parables. As Mark L. Strauss notes in his book Four Portraits, One Jesus, for a time …
Tall Tale TV, a site that produces short audiobooks, just released one of my short stories, "Ghost in a Chrome Cage." You can find it below. Hope you like it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxVDQiS_wE0&feature=youtu.be
One of the best tools for writing is to learn by looking at the masters. This helps you learn how to improve your writing and deal with certain doubts or concerns. In this article, I look at 3 things you should know when writing overtly Christian stories - stories like Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, …
Recently, I've been working with a filmmaking group called Robotic Flyers Productions. After a lot of work, we've finished our first short film, The Magic Statue. I play a bit role and worked on the story with director James D. Stacy. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=445&v=BIEIOfDadJw Warning: Some language.
G. Connor Salter 