Writing Christian Fiction for Women: How to Grip & Hold Readers' Attention

Writing Christian Fiction for Women: How to Grip & Hold Readers' Attention

What readers want is an entertaining, absorbing read: they want to enter, for the brief time of the story, into the world you have created. They want to feel, and laugh, and cry with your characters; they want to satisfy their hunger for emotional engagement and spiritual uplift. They want the story to affirm for them that "God's in His heaven, all's right with the world".

Write about real-life issues: physical and verbal abuse, domestic violence, unfaithfulness, abortion, divorce, drug addiction, alcoholism, illness, death. Create multi-dimensional, believable characters - warts and all - that readers can relate to. Show how your characters' wrong choices create problems for themselves and others; how they make a comeback and overcome challenges; and how, through the rough times, they grow in their character and faith. Most of all, weave a shining thread of God's love and faithfulness through the story, and show how He makes all things beautiful in His time.

Recommended Reading:
Writing the Christian Romance by Gail Gaymer Martin