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When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.
Jerry B. Jenkins
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Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
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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.
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SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.
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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.
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My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.
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I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
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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.
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Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.
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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.
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Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.
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Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.
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He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.
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Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.
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Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.
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