Story Science
Episode 10 | how to write redemption arcs and & conversion stories? Story Science of A Christmas Carol
Hello friend! Welcome to the Faith, Writing & Coffee Chats podcast!
Do you want to create compelling believable redemption story arcs for your villainous, not quite good, morally gray characters?
In today’s episode, we will find out exactly this by studying one of my favorite Christmas novels, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens!!! I am so excited to be studying this story with you all today as a part of the new podcast series: Story Science—Learning Story from Stories!
This is how I have learned writing—by studying stories. If I want to learn how to write a certain story, a story or character arc, world build, dialogue, whatever it is I learn by studying stories. This can be from books, movies, tv shows, even songs. If it is a story then we can learn from it.
So today, we will be answering the question: how do you write redemption arcs/stories? AND how to write conversion stories? If you are a faith writer then your redemption story will most likely be a conversion story—a story of coming to faith, of becoming a Christian. Since these two concepts are so linked, I wanted to go into answering both these questions in this episode!
In this podcast, you will learn:
Developing backstory to show that hidden spark of good in your negative character, giving them layers and humanity
Giving your character an “aha” and disaster moment combo to help intact their moment of change
Letting your characters have consequences for their choices based on their internal conflict
Backing your character’s change with ACTION
How to make sure your characters change has a CLEAR TRIGGER
My personal favorite way of writing redemption stories: through conversation stories (a character becoming a Christian)
In this podcast we will study a real story examples by case studying Scrooge from A Christmas Carol
You don’t want to miss this episode!
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Resources I recommend if reading A Christmas Carol:
Libby (a free library app for audiobooks & ebooks) <<<
Faith, Writing and Coffee Chats Podcast | How to make reading classic literature fun and easy to understand! My top 5 tips for reading classic novels: https://faithwritingcoffee.wixsite.com/my-site/podcast/episode/265b46c7/episode-07-or-how-to-make-reading-classic-literature-fun-and-easy-to-understand-my-top-5-tips
Hillsdale Free Online Course for A Christmas Carol: https://online.hillsdale.edu/?_gl=1*19i92g8*_ga*MTIwNjU2NTM3NS4xNzAyMDYxNTk5*_ga_FBJP6CFLDM*MTcwMjA2MTU5OS4xLjAuMTcwMjA2MTU5OS42MC4wLjA.
Christmas Instrumental playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1MJO8npZnDuqaE9kQKxKgx?si=7dce8a60d6744f9a
A Christmas Carol Reading Playlist:
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) movie
Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983) movie
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You are fearfully and wonderfully made by God. You have a gift and talent given to you by God. I challenge you to use your gifts and to be a light.
“My heart overflows with a pleasing theme;
I address my verses to the king;
my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.” Psalm 45:1
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