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Reply Subj: Well done Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 at 06:10:58 pm EDT (Viewed 461 times) | |||||||
Quote: Considering historical events get explored in fiction all the time, I have no issue at with the retelling of a story like this. I agree with you that you can explore things through fiction that you can't through pure fact. It certainly helped me get a different perspective on a narrative so familiar as to have become almost neutered. Quote: A story like this is an interpretation of a passage in the Bible; the difference between this and a thesis on a book of the Bible is fiction can make you feel the story, meaning you get just as much or more from the story then you would from a academic paper. Plus you don't put people to sleep this way.It's also perhaps less threatening in a "this is what you must believe" kind of way. A reader can approach the meaning of the scripture without having to plunge into a full acceptance right off. Quote: I have actually toyed with doing a re-telling of the Christmas Story, but setting it in the future. My thinking is if people read it and are intrigued by the source material, they may want to seek out that source material. I thought of the idea while sitting through yet another re-enactment of the Christmas Story last December (my wife has been teaching at private Christian schools the past 5 years, and I have to go to the Christmas Program each year). Or even if nobody else reads it, it would be a way for me to explore the story further myself.Sounds intriguing. Why the future? | |||||||
