HeyJaredEmilia Nessuno
Amateur literary analyst, essayist, & fiction writer passionate about good literature and quality writing in a faith-based context. Fighting the war against low-quality Christian art.
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The Definitive Case for Good Writing (opens the original)
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“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself.”Henry David Thoreau, Walden<img alt="
On Road Trips & Doom (opens the original)
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How to Write Best-Selling Christian Fiction (opens the original)
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Welcome, Christian writer! Below you will find the ultimate step-by-step guide to writing Christian fiction which sells—and proclaims the Good News! In a world of seemingly ever-growing darkness, our call as Christian writers grows ever more important: to be a light in the dark, the salt of the earth, the lamp on the hill, the inspirational story on the shelf of secular storytelling.This may seem a tall order. “How,” you ask, “can my humble little story idea make any meaningful impact?”Well, dea
Why Christian Writing Isn't Good (opens the original)
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Self-referentiality is by no means the singular problem with Christian writing—and art in general—but it is a major one I have noticed, acting as a deterrent barring the way for the people the writing ought to be reaching.By “self-referentiality,” I mean our tendency to “talk around,” to make art about, rather than art which emerges out of, human experience.A simple example can b
Reading to Live (opens the original)
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