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Post by Jeff Gerke on Feb 9, 2009 8:09:55 GMT -5
The great thing is that there's room for all of these story ideas and more. We won't ever exhaust the ways of illustrating and celebrating God's love for us.
Jeff
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Post by mongoose on Feb 9, 2009 18:40:48 GMT -5
Those are all great ideas, but as you say, they've been done before, and in this way: The person, the human, the recipient of grace and love are the PCs or MCs. I'm talking about a story where God is the PC or MC. I think it would change things significantly, and I don't think I've read such a story, though I did read "Hind's Feet . . ." That was a good story, for sure, but it was an allegory, and I'd like to see something more real, and it used the lady as the POV character, whereas I'm looking for the Shepherd's POV. And no, it's not my story. I'm not writing it. I doubt I'd be qualified, and God hasn't given me the inspiration or the guidance. It's just an idea that's out there for anyone to pick up and run with. Just make sure it's a romance, and God is the POV character.
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Post by Jeff Gerke on Feb 10, 2009 18:41:52 GMT -5
Well, it seems we have a reprieve on the end of the world. The machine's not going to be turned back on until September, they're saying now.
Bummer.
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Post by J Jack on Feb 11, 2009 10:30:11 GMT -5
I'm so ready for the end. I thought about this for a while (after getting a 317$ speeding ticket) if the world ends and people are still around after, you can't get in trouble for speeding any more! I got really excited at that thought and prayed God would end it right then, but to my dismay, he didn't. Looks like I'm just out 317$  |
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Post by mongoose on Feb 12, 2009 2:50:47 GMT -5
Then you just have warlords letting you speed, as long as you pay 50% taxes, or some such, let them at your first born daughter when she's 16, and do everything else they tell you to, whenever the whim strikes them.
But there are alternatives! You can run to the hills, and keep running until you find a place to set up your own little empire. Where you would be . . . the warlord in charge! Or perhaps you'd prefer representative democracy, with speeding tickets.
OR, you could fight against the warlords, raising a resistance army until they're put down. Then you become the new . . . warlord in charge! or maybe you set up a representative democracy with yourself as the interim president. And you establish speedlimits and hire cops to pass out speeding tickets.
Or maybe there's a fourth option I'm missing, but I am having fun with this!
In all of these post apocalyptic stories, the bad guy is the power hungry warlord who tramples on everyone in his way, and the hero is the resistance fighter who cares only for truth, justice, and the legends of the American way. What if it were the other way around? What if the hero, perhaps starting with pure motives, ended up taking power and weilding it as a dictator? For the good of the people, of course. We would know they were wrong to think and act that way based upon our democratic values or whatever, but they're the POV character, and the story would try to show how they were justified in their own eyes.
Maybe it would work for someone else's story. I don't plan on taking mine far enough for power to do much to corrupt my guy. That or he keeps repenting. Although I can write villians, I suspect, I don't use them as POV characters very often or for very much of the story.
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Post by Jeff Gerke on Feb 12, 2009 16:46:00 GMT -5
Postman, baby.
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Post by mongoose on Feb 12, 2009 19:05:05 GMT -5
I don't remember the Postman going bad, though I did enjoy the movie. I'll have to look it up.
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Post by Jeff Gerke on Feb 13, 2009 8:10:10 GMT -5
No, he didn't go bad. But the movie is the kind of thing you're describing: warlord bullies.
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Post by J Jack on Feb 13, 2009 11:41:07 GMT -5
Mad Max, Out of the Ashes. So many of them.
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