tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33325729.post116167446690538795..comments2023-11-05T03:47:03.674-07:00Comments on The Lost Genre Guild: Words Healcynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15514785429568086047noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33325729.post-1161877708684773332006-10-26T09:48:00.000-06:002006-10-26T09:48:00.000-06:00Grace, in regards to, "I seek my healing by settin...Grace, in regards to, "I seek my healing by setting my suffering in grand and extreme scenarios. And who knows? Maybe it might just work..."<BR/><BR/>I do the exact same thing, and I often transfer my pain into different senarios (ie, an alcoholic father becomes child abandonment and sexual abuse.) Alone, I don't know if it'd make a difference, but when it's a prayer as only a writer can pray, I know that it makes all the difference in the world. I poured my painful questions into my fiction, and the Lord met me there, and He is healing me. He'll heal you, too, Grace.<BR/><BR/>If you're baffled at the emotional transfer I mentioned, you'd have to have an alcoholic parent to understand, I suspect. I don't know why a parent's imbibing has the effect it does, I just know my own experience.Andrea Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15704143681030568711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33325729.post-1161874387230758792006-10-26T08:53:00.000-06:002006-10-26T08:53:00.000-06:00Carizz, you're right on target. The gentleman in q...Carizz, you're right on target. The gentleman in question is actually already dead before the main action of the book gets started, he only appears briefly in the prologue (his sister's diary, actually.) The main conflict of Heaven's Mark results in those decades of prayer coming to fruition even though the man with the worn-out knees on his suit has already gone home to glory.<BR/><BR/>We're so short sighted, really. Jesus always keeps his promises, even if we don't see it on this earth. Kael went to his grave believing God would answer his prayers for his nephew, despite naysayers telling him it was impossible and he was wasting his time, and God did indeed answer. "Unless a seed falleth to the ground and die, it abideth alone, but if it die, it bareth much fruit." Kael had to literally die, in his case.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33325729.post-1161841664019744612006-10-25T23:47:00.000-06:002006-10-25T23:47:00.000-06:00True-Story-Example: a child in our church develope...<I>True-Story-Example: a child in our church developed a tumor. The whole church came together and prayed hard. The child died. Many left the church.</I><BR/><BR/>In this example, the sad part of the story for me would be the people leaving the church. But the girl dying after she was prayed for was to be a joyous celebration. Sure, it was sad for the people left behind by the girl. But for the girl herself, Jesus ended her pain and now, she's in heaven, healthy... forever.<BR/><BR/><I>"God, your word says all things work together for good, but I don't see how any good could come out of this."<BR/><BR/>He prays in earnest for decades, only to die before they're answered.</I><BR/><BR/>His word also says, "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it."<BR/><BR/>Abraham didn't see the fulfillment of the promise that his offspring would be like that of the sand in numbers. But God didn't take back His word.<BR/><BR/>I'd like to think that the prayers we uttered in faith and in line with His will, even if we did die without seeing the answer, will echo down the generations.driftwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15986071336281224733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33325729.post-1161808422574756932006-10-25T14:33:00.000-06:002006-10-25T14:33:00.000-06:00I like your thinking, Frank. My novel, Heaven's Ma...I like your thinking, Frank. My novel, Heaven's Mark, opens with several tragedies, all within one family pretty much, and goes on to take up the challenge of one patriarch's prayer, that includes something along the lines of, "God, your word says all things work together for good, but I don't see how any good could come out of this."<BR/><BR/>He prays in earnest for decades, only to die before they're answered.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33325729.post-1161785185201687602006-10-25T08:06:00.000-06:002006-10-25T08:06:00.000-06:00Grace,That makes sense to me. I believe who we are...Grace,<BR/><BR/>That makes sense to me. I believe who we are and what we experience seeps into characters and plots. Some people journal for healing--in fact I teach an online class on using journaling to write fiction. :)<BR/><BR/>DonnaDonna Sundbladhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03931096970113616734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33325729.post-1161771662098380202006-10-25T04:21:00.000-06:002006-10-25T04:21:00.000-06:00Tragedy, as in Othello, is not a popular form. It ...Tragedy, as in Othello, is not a popular form. It would be easy to create tragic story arcs, but readers don't want to be depressed. Happy endings are in demand--to the extent that they've become cliche. You know the good guy will win. What if we worked tragedy into the early plot and believer's faith did not win, but overcame?<BR/>True-Story-Example: a child in our church developed a tumor. The whole church came together and prayed hard. The child died. Many left the church.<BR/>But what lessons were learned by the survivors of this tragedy? How did it change their lives?<BR/>Now set this drama in a Moon colony, or in the village of Wellhordt.<BR/>Suffering working for good is the making of a great story. Grace, what you've experienced over the last year is the makings of a writer's tortured soul. You could become a blues-singer as well. 8D<BR/>Faith,<BR/>fFrank Creedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11635583213577356111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33325729.post-1161744989036851262006-10-24T20:56:00.000-06:002006-10-24T20:56:00.000-06:00Grace, I appreciate much of what you've said, I te...Grace, I appreciate much of what you've said, I tend to start with character and setting and let plot flow out of them, and I definitely infuse my own emotions into my writing. I handle situations that I haven't dealt with by calling up similar emotions from a perpendicular pain. It's often easier that way than using the actual situations you've been through. And I'll admit I've also played with what if's like yours, in my case, "What if I had followed through on deleting the email that introduced me to my husband and eventually led me to move two time zones away?"<BR/><BR/> But I must take issue with, "Times are harder than they've ever been on this old world." Are we worse off, spiritually speaking, than we were fifty years ago, or a hundred years ago? That I'd agree with. But, that's just a drop in the bucket as far as history's concerned. <BR/><BR/>In truth, before Christ, this world reeked more than any of us can imagine. Over the last 2000 years, Christianity has taken on about every moral issue we're facing today before and won. The only reason we're sliding back into anything approaching the Hell this world used to be before Christ came, is because His Body has, by and large, fallen into two equally bad deceptions: some have drunk the cup of the world, rolled over, and fallen into a drunken stupper. Others are sitting on their rumps, wide awake, but handing the world over to the devil thinking this will somehow bring Jesus back faster. <BR/><BR/>If the Body of Christ would rise up and stand together, we could change the course of History.<BR/><BR/>Again, great post!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33325729.post-1161689895259925942006-10-24T05:38:00.000-06:002006-10-24T05:38:00.000-06:00I have a feeling that the more I know of the whole...<I> I have a feeling that the more I know of the whole broad spectrum of human emotion and experience, the more I can bring it to life in my words. </I><BR/><BR/>Very true, because you cannot give what you don't have.driftwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15986071336281224733noreply@blogger.com