USING THE BIBLE AS A WRITING IDEA

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i find lots of short story ideas in the Bible. As someone once said, “The copyright has expired, so you are in no danger.”

I agree that the Bible can be a very good source of ideas. This doesn’t just apply to fiction writers – a blogger could adapt a Biblical parable as an previously untold secret account of an incident(anecdotal-style) part of a blog post, for instance.

Christian Fiction is a huge market, with expanded versions of Bible stories and novels based on Christian themes, but that’s not what I’m focusing on here. This article is about finding inspiration from the Bible for your own writing, whether or not you’re a Christian.

IDEAS FROM BIBLE CHARACTERS
The Bible is full of interesting characters. Some are villians, others are heroic, and many occupy the fascinating grey area in between – good men who do something bad (Peter, who denies knowing Jesus, Moses, who kills a man; ) or cowards whose find courage (Jonah, who tries to run away from God).

If you are having a hard time to come up with characters for your fiction, why not pick one of the people in the Bible? Here are some to start you off:

•Daniel & friends (Book of Daniel, in the Old Testament) – sticking to what they believe despite persecution and death threats

•Judas (the disciple who betrayed Jesus) – interesting for any story about a traitor within a close-knit group

•Paul (wrote many of the letters in the New Testament) – radical conversion to a cause he’d formerly hated

•Peter (one of the disciples) – hot-headed and impulsive but he loved Jesus

It's a short one, but if you enjoyed it please resteem and upvote so others will learn from this, thanks alot.

@bluehearted