American - Novelist | September 23, 1949 -
People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.
Jerry B. Jenkins
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People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.
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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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The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.
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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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The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
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