{"id":320,"date":"2013-01-05T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chistell.com\/africanamericanfiction\/?p=320"},"modified":"2016-10-08T23:43:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T03:43:20","slug":"adapting-christian-books-to-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chistell.com\/africanamericanfiction\/adapting-christian-books-to-real-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Adapting Christian Books to Real Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Denise Turney<\/p>\n

Adapting Christian books to real life is becoming increasingly popular. That’s a good thing. People who read Christian fiction books want to believe that the events in the novels could actually happen. Widespread media coverage of traumatic events and trends like hard divorces, child abuse, pastoral indiscretions, poverty and domestic violence have alerted readers of Christian books to more of what goes on in the world.<\/p>\n

Empowering Christian Books with Realism<\/strong><\/p>\n

If an author writes a Christian book that depicts characters as flawless, that doesn’t take on any of the above and other challenges inherit in the world, readers are quick to notice. After awhile, readers might start to feel as if they are being cheated. Why? Readers want to easily connect with characters in Christian books; they want to be able to see themselves in scenes depicted throughout the stories. They don’t want to feel as if they are being forced to believe that the world is spotless, that the world has no struggle, disappointments or frustrations.<\/p>\n

Another thing readers look for in Christian books is real<\/i> language, the type of language that people spoke at the time stories are set in. For example, if a story is set in the 1920s, readers appreciate characters using slang and dialect that people actually used in the 1920s. They don’t want to have characters using terms from the 2000s.<\/p>\n

To adapt Christian books to real life, inspirational authors could:<\/p>\n