Question from reader.

Many of my readers are budding authors and so I'm excited to hear any questions. I've not had a lot of experience myself but I can speak from what I've learned. So here's the question.

I'm working on a couple of different books (vampire novel and sci fi-romance.) I'd like to put my faith into my writing, but I honestly have no clue how to do this. (I'm not even sure I should be doing the vampire one.) I've never gotten an idea for a faith based plot or even a plot where I could put in something about the character's faith. How'd you do it?

I believe that most writers inherently weave pieces of themselves into their story and this includes things that point to a belief system they may have. I absolutely did not go into this story thinking how shall I work my faith into it. Nothing about my work is scripted in that way. I suppose if it were that would ruin the creative process for me. On the other hand I will never write a story that has me compromising what I believe to be true. That being said, I could write a story where no character's faith is revealed or even considered as important to the outcome. I just don't have a problem adding faith to a story if it's important to the character(s) rather than ignoring it because I'm afraid someone might throw the book and dismiss it as propaganda. It just so happen that my main characters faith was important to who they were and so it was part of the story.

I'm still amazed that my story rang true with many readers from an exclusive Christian market whose publishers only put out narrowly targeted fiction but I'll take them where I can get them. ;)

I wish I had a better answer but I simply write to write. There is no real agenda. I am a Christian (garden-variety) though and again, I'd never write anything to compromise that.