What if our characters are real? What if they are actually the souls of unborn children who died before birth, and God gives them to authors as inspiration for characters in our stories? What if we will meet all our characters someday in heaven? When I came up with that fun fictional concept last week, I […]
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How God Used My Fictional Character to Teach Me True Things
Posted in Christian Living, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, My Life, Speculative Fiction, Writing, tagged adrenaline, Bible, character, faith, fiction, God, Scripture, writing on November 6, 2015 | 16 Comments »
Writer Wars: The Prolific and the Percolators
Posted in Christian Living, Controversies, Creativity and the Arts, Publishing, Scripture, Writing, tagged books, competition, fiction, huffpo, indie, larry correia, literary, love, money, publishing, Scripture, self-publishing, writing on September 16, 2015 | 17 Comments »
Yesterday I read an article I enjoyed. To me, the lesson was: take your time writing books, pay attention to quality, and don’t feel pressured to pump out multiple novels a year, but rather do what you know is right for your stories. Since I don’t have much time to write, and I am committed to seeing […]
7 Ways Your Characters Might Be Weak (And 11 Ways to Fix Them!)
Posted in My Books, Myers-Briggs Typology, Writing, tagged books, characters, development, fiction, myers-briggs, reading, teen, TV, writers, writing on January 12, 2015 | 11 Comments »
I’ve been working on my science-fiction trilogy for almost ten years now. (Whew, it seems like an eternity!) I started writing it at fourteen years old, and often dreamed of being like Christopher Paolini and becoming a famous published teenager. Now, looking back, I am so, SO glad I didn’t get published back then! My story, my […]
6 Favorite Brother-Sister Relationships in Fiction
Posted in Fandoms and Geekery, Literature, tagged brother, character, Dickens, family, fiction, films, Firefly, genres, love, movies, relationships, siblings, sister, tolkien, TV on December 8, 2014 | 22 Comments »
Romance. Parent and child. Sisterhood. Brotherhood. Sibling groups. Friendships. Partners. Mentor and student. Master and servant. Leader and followers. Personally, although I enjoy reading about many different kinds of relationships, I’m a big sucker for a strong brother-sister friendship, mostly because the trilogy I’ve been writing for almost 10 years, The Kraesinia Trilogy, centers around […]
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Bethany A. Jennings is a YA speculative fiction and poetry author, a freelance editor, and a lover of artisan sandwiches. Born in SoCal, with a heart and soul raised in many different worlds, she now lives happily in New England with her husband, four children, zero pets, and a large and growing collection of tiny houseplants. She is a firm believer in the power of words to reach hurting hearts, uplift the weary, and pierce the darkness.
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