The more I interact with other bloggers, the more I realize everyone has a story brewing in them.
For some, it’s about theology or practical application, for others, it’s personal experiences or fiction.
I believe there are at least as many stories as there are people.
We all have one (I have two, maybe three :)).
Last week, Marcus asked what everyone is reading, but I would like to know what you’re writing?
Tell Me A Story
You may not have started typing one single word (or you have), but I’m sure you’ve at least kicked ideas around or had an awesome story idea pop-up in your head.
Here are two stories I’ve been thinking about:
- A post apocalyptic science fiction story that tackles modern cultural struggles of today.
- A children’s fantasy story about finding God’s purpose for our lives.
Sheesh.
Typing those out just now feels pretty good.
They’ve gone from my head to the screen and it feels pretty liberating. I may need to start on one of these, tonight.
Care to join me?
If you wrote a book, what would it be about?
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bryan hill says
My wife have talked about writing a book about our role swapping, her being the bread winner and me being the stay at home parent…
Eric Dye says
That would be an interesting writing project to do together!
Joanna says
I’ve got two books I’m writing.
One is a (hopefully) funny exploration of the at times strange and frustrating experience of being a single Christian. It includes things like bad relationship advice Christian singles get from married people, creepy internet dating ads and people who go spouse hunting at Christian conferences. I guess it is kind of like the book Stuff Christians Like but specifically related to single Christians. My hope is that it will make single Christians feel less alone and less crazy and that it will be a good conversation stater amongst Christians more broadly about how to care for single adults.
The other is a novel/novella about the first person born at a human settlement on Mars. It is more sociological than it is sci-fi, exploring how being away from earth might change how you’d think about things like identity, cultural origins, what home means, materialism when everything you own has to be shipped from another planet at super high cost, how teenage angst might play out in such a context ect.
Eric Dye says
Cool!!
Marcus Williamson says
Love this…
I’d write a book on design naturally. It would be a conversation between myself and another creative. We’d talk about various creative things in our respective fields. Think Red Letter Revolution but more design based. We’d also talk about our failures so it’s not all a bed of roses. Because life is based on failures and achievements, not just the later yeah.
The other would be on marriage and the steps on the before and leading up to it. I’m not married yet but when the time comes I think this would be a cool angle.
Eric Dye says
I can’t wait for you to write your design book! 😛
Jeremy says
I’ve had a reoccuring dream about the ‘biggest problem in Christianity’ over the past few years it’s all about “FAITH” we need to build it, defend it, and share it. I want to write something about how when we bring new Christians in the church we don’t do anything other than see that they are saved, we don’t give them tools or handles to go out and build their faith, let alone show how to share it or defend it.
Build it – Stage 1: keep a journal of all the times God has showed up in your life. (this can help you in the low times) Read up on religious articles and books, study your bible, read some apologetics, etc..
Defend it – Stage 2: Get in on some serious Apologetics here; and know that Atheists have books on how to debate Christians, we should be ready for questions about our faith.
Share it – Stage 3: Learn how to live like a Christian 7 days a week, it’s a lot easier selling someone on Christ if they see how he lives in your life. If someone has an issue offer to pray for them, if they are having difficulties be their friend. Get involved in serving in your Church, outside organizations, anywhere you can make a difference and share Christ within you, you’ll be amazed at how easy it is to share Christ without having to go door to door. You meet people everyday that need Christ.
You can be in all of these stages at once, there’s no time limit. It’s just absurd for us to believe our ‘Churches aren’t deep enough’ when our pastors only get 30-45 minutes a week for us to hear the message. We should be doing the homework on our own as well. Sunday is our worship time and the rest of the week is our homework time.
I’d love to expound on this stuff but no idea where to start. 🙂
Eric Dye says
It looks like you’ve got a good outline to start with! Perhaps if you jump in and start, you’ll figure out where to begin?
Nuru Nyambura says
Sometime back, I thought of writing an illustrative/ symbolic childrens book that would make it easier for children to see and understand God’s wonderful plan for mankind, mans rebelliousness, and God’s saving grace and love, so that they would be drawn into a devout relationship with God from a young age. I noted down the ideas and started on the first chapter, but that is as far as I have gotten.
Eric Dye says
You should crack that project back open, you never know where it might lead you. 🙂
Paul Clifford (@PaulAlanClif) says
After writing 5, (two need to be edited still), I wouldn’t say I’m working on any right now…well not exactly.
My “Eternity Changers” series on YouTube (http://bit.ly/eternitychange) might become a book some time (more specifically, later this year). It’s about pursuing the call God has given you and overcoming the (mostly self-imposed) obstacles that are in your way.
“Creating Church” (one of the unedited books) is on its way to become a full on course about using creativity in the church (I shoot the videos on Tuesdays at 2p eastern at ChurchTechCast.com).
Then, there’s “Church 2063.” At the beginning of the year, I wrote some in it everyday, but hit a point where I stopped. I may or may not pick back up with this look at what church might look like in 50 years, but we’ll see.
Paul
Eric Dye says
Depending on when you finish it, you may have to retitled it to “Church 2064” 😉
Matt Brier says
I’ve been re-reading through some stuff I wrote for NaNoWriMo in past years and here were some of the ideas I had, all science-fiction based:
1. Humanity travels the stars for research as well as recreational purposes. Planets are terraformed to make them hospitable and are used in much the same way as real estate is used today. Enter the need for planetary repossession. Whether it’s a former tycoon behind on payments of their special order paradise or company that has lost control of one of their research facilities, there are men and women on call to take the planet back.
2. A novel about life and love during the apocalypse.
3. A novel that played on the idea that, for some, dreaming is their way of connecting to an alternate reality version of themselves.
I also kicked around the idea of what would happen if you woke up one morning in one of an infinite number of multiverses, you knew it wasn’t the one you started in, you find out it happens more often than you think to everyone, and you keep doing it. Kind of a you, every version of you in existance, steps one multiverse to the left, but you are the only version of you that realizes it type thing.
Eric Dye says
Awesome. Great ideas, here!