Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers.
Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.
My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.
Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.
People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.
People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.
The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.
The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.
The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written.
When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.
While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
