Showing posts with label Writing Truth in Fiction - 4 Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Writing Truth in Fiction - 4 Tips. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Writing Truth in Fiction - 4 Tips

 


by Cindy K. Sproles @CindyDevoted

Thumbing through social media crushes my writing soul. These days, an innocent joke among friends leads to accusations of social injustice, racism, or politics. It makes writing a difficult thing. We now have to pour more critically over our work and that makes getting the message out, hard. Given light to highly publicized social injustices, innocent lines of dialogue are now taken as offensive and for Christian writers, the use of God or religion in anything is increasingly difficult. We can hardly allow characters to work through conflict and issues without strong social scrutiny or being tagged insensitive.