58. Five Additional Tools to Make Your Story Good Before God

THE STORYTELLER’S MISSION WITH ZENA DELL LOWE

EPISODE 58 – Five Additional Tools and Solutions for Godly Storytelling

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EPISODE DESCRIPTION – For the last several weeks, we have been analyzing the five primary keynotes or principles of godly storytelling: 

1.    A commitment to truth telling

2.    A commitment to do no harm

3.    Promoting involvement rather than voyeurism

4.    Portraying good and evil accurately

5.    The possibility of redemption.

Today, we examine five final tools or solutions to help us achieve a final product that glorifies God while also allowing us to create art that is truly excellent. These include:

1.     Reflect a genuinely Christian worldview – which means we may need to brush up on our theology since we have to know it to be able to reflect it in our work.

2.     Live in consultation – when in doubt, talk it out, which means finding people who can speak to our work in terms of how it holds up theologically, artistically, and in accordance with human psychology.

3.     Go back to the well of creativity – which means we need to become better artists, because there’s always a solution to the challenge our work presents. Instead of going for the easy, trite way out, go back to the well of creativity and challenge yourself to be better.

4.     Be in touch with your own sin nature – stop approaching the work from a childish perspective, or condescending to our audience by offering simplistic, childish solutions. 

5.     Resist the temptation to “fix it,” which will be dealt with in depth next week.

UP NEXT - Next week, we will discuss why we need to resist the temptation to try to “fix” problems in story. 

THE WELL CREATIVITY CONFERENCE - Zena Dell Lowe is honored to be a Keynote Speaker at THE WELL CREATIVITY CONFERENCE, which takes place in Grand Rapids MI on April 22-23, 2021. She’ll also be teaching an acting/improvisational workshop for actors and writers called, “Make Me Believe.”  To find out more or to register to attend, CLICK HERE, or go tohttps://seeyouatthewell.net

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SPECIAL THANKS - The Storyteller’s Mission with Zena Dell Lowe would like to thank composer CARLA PATULLO for the original music she graciously permits us to use in the intro and outro of this podcast. To find out more about this amazing talent, go to  www.carlapatullo.com