Imagine you’re at a new restaurant. You’re intrigued by the daily special so you ask the waiter to tell you more. And he says, “Well, it doesn’t have chicken. There’s no MSG. And it isn’t as sweet as yesterday’s special.” Would you like to order it? Hard to tell, right? Especially since all you know is what it isn’t.
That’s unfortunately how Christian Fiction is often described. This story has no sex, no bad words, no gratuitous violence. The greatest virtues seem to be what was left out. Want to read it? Again – hard to tell, right?
Great stories – like great recipes – are defined by the main ingredients. If you want to entice someone, tell them exactly what makes your story unique and worthy of their time. What you’ve poured into it, not what you’ve left out. There are a million things not in your story. What is in it?
