Stories give us characters, plots, twists, locations, laughs, tears, anger, and/or every other emotion known to mankind. They take place in all timelines, sometimes meshing those timelines, the future, the past, the contemporary, and whatever time and wherever a fantasy exists. The genres have been named, renamed, and given completely new names. They are written with innumerable styles, wit, clarity, depth, simplicity, intensity, humor, and/or sorrow. Their agendas are pronounced or fleeting, light-hearted or life-and-death drama. The authors who write them are equally similar and dissimilar.
But what we learn about authors from reading many novels from the same authors and from those we first "meet" when reading their stories? Well, those deductions are sometimes as interesting and/or entertaining as the stories themselves.
Tell me what you've learned in reading the novels from favorite authors. Not necessarily about how they write, but what have you discerned about them personally? Throw me in the mix if you've read any of my work.
I'll give my deductions of several authors I've read on Friday's post. And reveal some things about my work and what it tells the reader about me. Fair enough?
Father, I can only speak for myself in this: apart from you, I can do nothing. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.