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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I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.
I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.
My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
I told my whole life story in my book.
I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.
When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.
At the end of the day, the job is to tell the story that you promised to tell and do it in the most entertaining and perhaps surprising way you can think of.
I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.
As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.