Showing posts with label Why Write Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Why Write Fiction. Show all posts

Monday, October 26, 2020

Why Write Fiction?


by Ane Mulligan @AneMulligan

Maggie’s husband died. The stock market crashed. Her little boy was kidnapped by his grandfather. How can she find the strength of faith to go on? 

That’s from my novel, In High Cotton. I drew on my life’s darkest moments for Maggie’s emotions. I interviewed friends for their hardest time of trusting God. A mother whose twenty-one-year-old son was leaving for a three-month missionarytour went fishing with his father a couple of hours, before he had to board his plane. He slipped on a rock, hit his head, and drowned in three inches of water. Where was God?