Den Warren's Blog - Posts Tagged "christian-writing"
Making of the Lucid Series: The Spiritual Side
There is not much to tell about the what I physically did in making this book. In the first draft the plot was a horrible mess. Nothing fit. The prose was beyond a disaster. I went through seven complete edits of it plus an unknowable amount of other edits to clean it up.
I have written other books in the past that I wanted to write. The Kings and Clans Trilogy, and some pretty funny spec fiction books. They all were from a Christian worldview. They contain a lot of rougher language than what the Christian market wants, but Jesus is mentioned in them. People mostly don't like that. Whatever.
But as I was writing The Lucid Series and the plot became clear, I realized that this was a book that needed to be written. Each day I prayed for the mishmash mess I made to come together. Then the message in the book became more clear. Each day the book became less mine and more God's. Ideas came into my groggy brain, seemingly from nowhere.
Yes, I was used to write it, but I'll have to give God the credit for any success it may have. (I am not saying this is any kind of inspired writing like scripture. He just helped me do better than my best.)
The voices in my head tend to believe whatever the market says about my writing, but this time I know that it is a book that has enormous potential to win souls and bolster Christians. That is why I am trying to keep myself out of it. It is like it is not mine to sell. I am only charging the minimum that is allowable by the market. (Not saying I will never raise the price, as that may be an advantage. Sometimes they get more downloads if the price is raised.)
Right now it just needs reviewers. Please prayerfully consider helping out with this. Then if you like it, please consider distributing paperbacks.
The Lucid Series: Android Uprising
I have written other books in the past that I wanted to write. The Kings and Clans Trilogy, and some pretty funny spec fiction books. They all were from a Christian worldview. They contain a lot of rougher language than what the Christian market wants, but Jesus is mentioned in them. People mostly don't like that. Whatever.
But as I was writing The Lucid Series and the plot became clear, I realized that this was a book that needed to be written. Each day I prayed for the mishmash mess I made to come together. Then the message in the book became more clear. Each day the book became less mine and more God's. Ideas came into my groggy brain, seemingly from nowhere.
Yes, I was used to write it, but I'll have to give God the credit for any success it may have. (I am not saying this is any kind of inspired writing like scripture. He just helped me do better than my best.)
The voices in my head tend to believe whatever the market says about my writing, but this time I know that it is a book that has enormous potential to win souls and bolster Christians. That is why I am trying to keep myself out of it. It is like it is not mine to sell. I am only charging the minimum that is allowable by the market. (Not saying I will never raise the price, as that may be an advantage. Sometimes they get more downloads if the price is raised.)
Right now it just needs reviewers. Please prayerfully consider helping out with this. Then if you like it, please consider distributing paperbacks.
The Lucid Series: Android Uprising
Christian Writing Opportunity
Evangelicals can easily see the dangers of science without ethics. And we know very well that atheist scientists have no guiding belief system that must compel them to have ethics other than following what is popular at the time.
Christians are generally reknown for writing bad scifi, especially with a lack of evangelical authors. There is no excuse for that, since we evangelicals should be the experts when it comes to understanding ideas that are contrary to scripture, which result in "unintended consequences", which we evangelicals can see coming a mile away.
There are plenty of plot ideas to be generated from all this rampant dysfunction and potential for even greater heights of dystopia. Fruit hanging on the low branches, just waiting to be picked. (Okay, its not really quite that easy.)
For my book, The Lucid Series: Android Uprising I chose a combination of things that may well be in the future.
Christian publishing houses gravitate towards only a couple of main sub-genres, because they sell. It may be up to the Indie publishers to create and revitalize a genre that could actually cause a Christian male to pick up a book by a Christian author that actually promotes Christianity which stirs them and invigorates them.
The Christian cyberpunk sub-genre can only become better if Christians can show some support by reading and reviewing the books so others believers can spend a minute portion of their entertainment budget on them.
Prayerfully consider joining our Goodreads Group: Christian Cyberpunk Books if you want to write in the genre, be a reviewer, or are a fan of it. This group does a good job of encouraging and supporting each other.
Christians are generally reknown for writing bad scifi, especially with a lack of evangelical authors. There is no excuse for that, since we evangelicals should be the experts when it comes to understanding ideas that are contrary to scripture, which result in "unintended consequences", which we evangelicals can see coming a mile away.
There are plenty of plot ideas to be generated from all this rampant dysfunction and potential for even greater heights of dystopia. Fruit hanging on the low branches, just waiting to be picked. (Okay, its not really quite that easy.)
For my book, The Lucid Series: Android Uprising I chose a combination of things that may well be in the future.
Christian publishing houses gravitate towards only a couple of main sub-genres, because they sell. It may be up to the Indie publishers to create and revitalize a genre that could actually cause a Christian male to pick up a book by a Christian author that actually promotes Christianity which stirs them and invigorates them.
The Christian cyberpunk sub-genre can only become better if Christians can show some support by reading and reviewing the books so others believers can spend a minute portion of their entertainment budget on them.
Prayerfully consider joining our Goodreads Group: Christian Cyberpunk Books if you want to write in the genre, be a reviewer, or are a fan of it. This group does a good job of encouraging and supporting each other.
