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Is worldliness justified for profit?

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michaelvpardo

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I've always enjoyed writing and when I was young had hoped to break into it as a career. One short story was returned by the editor of a certain "men's" magazine with positive comments about my writing, but wanted it to include "more sex. "
At the time I hadn't been born again, but was raised with a sense of Christian morality and had no interest in writing pornography, so I put the manuscript aside and focused on other things.
Since that time, I began writing a number of different works of fiction, but ended up putting them aside (post my new birth ) for reasons of "inappropriateness " as the works of a professing Christian.
I find it nearly impossible to write realistic fiction (and marketable work) without the inclusion of profanities in certain situations, sexual innuendo, or even some degree of explict portrayals of common though immoral relationships.
Does our liberty justify professional worldliness?
 
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Daniel777

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I've always enjoyed writing and when I was young had hoped to break into it as a career. One short story was returned by the editor of a certain "men's" magazine with positive comments about my writing, but wanted it to include "more sex. "
At the time I hadn't been born again, but was raised with a sense of Christian morality and had no interest in writing pornography, so I put the manuscript aside and focused on other things.
Since that time, I began writing a number of different works of fiction, but ended up putting them aside (post my new birth ) for reasons of "inappropriateness " as the works of a professing Christian.
I find it nearly impossible to write realistic fiction (and marketable work) without the inclusion of profanities in certain situations, sexual innuendo, or even some degree of explict portrayals of common though immoral relationships.
Does our liberty justify professional worldliness?

How about writing non-fiction? It's actually quite easy to publish on Amazon nowadays, through Kindle Direct Publishing. I've published several books already, and done consulting for friends who have also published there.
 
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lforrest

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Perhaps fiction could be made that isn't soulish, exploring something deeper than an emotional narrative arc?
 

Daniel777

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In order to avoid the issue of profanity, how about some of our authors in this forum consider juvenile fiction or young adult? There's a pretty decent market there, especially juvenile fiction with Christian themes. Suzanne Collins, author of "The Hunger Games," was able to write a wildly popular series, made into several films, without any profanity. Not exactly a Christian theme, but very strong themes of survival, teamwork and forgiveness. These books spanned the ranges of juvenile fiction/young adult. A lot of parents are very much interested in books for their teens which don't have questionable inappropriate content.
 

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How about writing non-fiction? It's actually quite easy to publish on Amazon nowadays, through Kindle Direct Publishing. I've published several books already, and done consulting for friends who have also published there.

Daniel,

My new non-fiction book has recently been released by Wipf and Stock: How to Ruin Your Education and TV Viewing: Five Lessons from John Dominic Crossan.

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Amazon seems to have changed its model for publishing.

Oz
 

Daniel777

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Daniel,

My new non-fiction book has recently been released by Wipf and Stock: How to Ruin Your Education and TV Viewing: Five Lessons from John Dominic Crossan.

9781666735277.jpg


Amazon seems to have changed its model for publishing.

Oz

Looks good. Correct on Amazon, which has migrated the old Createspace to KDP...there are advantages and disadvantages to publishing on Amazon through KDP...The biggest advantage is getting listed in by far the biggest publishing platform in the world. Also, KDP publishers will always get the benefit of the "Look Inside" feature...another advantage is that KDP authors can purchase print copies at a greatly reduced "author's copy" price, helpful if you are selling direct to customer or keeping price low for group purchases. Biggest disadvantage of publishing on Amazon is that they receive the majority of profits from books at list price. Still, a great way to get your book out there. Then there is the e-book segment, very popular nowadays.
 

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..I find it nearly impossible to write realistic fiction (and marketable work) without the inclusion of profanities in certain situations, sexual innuendo, or even some degree of explict portrayals of common though immoral relationships..

Lots of best-selling authors don't use cuss-words and stuff, so find a good publisher who doesn't want it either..:)