Christians who pay attention to what their media is saying have a lot of concerns. Fantasy in particular has a lot of critics,1 and a particular trope in more modern fantasy seems worrying: good dragons. Should we write dragons as
Poetry and prose are the two great structural classes of human script-art. Prose is the standard, in our view, and poetry the exception. Historically, poetry has a much stronger presence in the world of art than prose, being much better
Poetry and prose and the two great structural classes of human script-art. Prose is the standard, in our view, and poetry the exception. Of course, historically poetry has a much stronger presence in the world of art than prose, being
Sometimes you shouldn’t write it. No, really. There are parts of every story that you shouldn’t put on the page. Sometimes they seem so attractive, so fun to write, so interesting a part of the story. But you have to
Modernity is myopic. We tend to assume that everybody in the past, deep down, thought in the same way we do, with the same essential premises. Further, we’re terrible at logical (or strategic) empathy, at seeing people through their own