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      <image:caption>Song of the Tiding Bearer, p. 260</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gift of the Tiding Bearer, p.326</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Song of the Tiding Bearer, p. 283</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Grace Notes - Themes of the Trilogy: the Seed - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Heart of the Tiding Bearer, p. 56</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Grace Notes - The Single Bible Verse That Inspired a Trilogy</image:title>
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      <image:title>Grace Notes - Why Fiction Needs More Mentor Characters - Mentors have their own struggles and flaws</image:title>
      <image:caption>Just because mentors are leaders doesn’t mean they have to be perfect; in fact, it’s often the ways in which they approach and overcome their flaws that make them worth looking up to. This is especially true in the case of Realgar, who, as a former first lieutenant in the High Ruler’s militia, has many regrets. But instead of dwelling on them, he uses his past to encourage Errol when he fails, reminding him that his mistakes can be teachers instead of tormentors.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Grace Notes - Why Fiction Needs More Mentor Characters - Mentors provide Biblical wisdom and insight</image:title>
      <image:caption>As any good mentor should, Dara gets her advice straight from the Giver Himself. Much of her dialogue is a direct paraphrase of Proverbs, and she doesn’t shy away from calling out the heroes when they make a wrong turn. As she says, “Faithful are the wounds of a friend.” But she also encourages and uplifts them, and always points them back to the Giver’s faithfulness and love.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Grace Notes - Why Fiction Needs More Mentor Characters - Mentors have complex faith walks</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mentors are human, and that means their relationship with God should be as nuanced and complex as any other character’s. Although Riah believes in the Giver and faithfully tends to the chronicles of the tiding bearers, his past is full of tragedies that have made him bitter and reluctant to step into a mentor role. But when he sees the Giver’s hand at work in the young heroes He’s raised up, their courage gives him reason to believe again. (See how it all comes full circle? Youth and elders need each other!)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Grace Notes - How My Writing Process Changed Over 500k Words - Book 1: The Pantster Era</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Pantster” is the term coined to refer to writers who like to fly “by the seat of their pants,” figuring out plot details as they write instead of plotting it all out ahead of time. I had killed many a project in my teens by trying to be a plotter, so when I had the idea for Gift of the Tiding Bearer, I was terrified that I’d overthink it to death too. I didn’t have the skills or confidence yet to apply my limited knowledge of story structure to an original idea without melting down. So I didn’t. I fleshed out the basic premise: boy goes on quest for priceless treasure in order to avenge his family’s death. And then I started writing. I followed the structure of Jeremiah 9:23-24 to guide my main characters’ basic arcs, and patched the rest of the details together as I went.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Grace Notes - How My Writing Process Changed Over 500k Words - Book 2: the Rewrites Era</image:title>
      <image:caption>Fueled by my success with Gift, I tackled Song of the Tiding Bearer with enthusiasm. I had a pretty good idea what I wanted it to be about, and so I cobbled together a rough outline and started writing—the technique that had proven effective my first time around. Only this time… It didn’t quite work out that way. Writing a sequel is an entirely different beast, and I got a several thousand words into the first draft many times, only to realize there were new problems I’d never be able to fix if I continued with the plot in that direction. To put in context just how many times I had to do this: my scraps document for Song is over 40k words. I eventually gave up on the book and didn’t come back to it until a year later. This was God’s timing, of course. That year was filled with lessons and experiences that transformed my vision for the story—and directly connected me with Mavis’s experience of heartbreak and questioning.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Grace Notes - How My Writing Process Changed Over 500k Words - Book 3: the Chapter Outline Era (she’s glowing)</image:title>
      <image:caption>As I’m sure you can imagine, I wasn’t keen to repeat the process of Song when I tackled the climax of the trilogy in Heart of the Tiding Bearer. My instincts and skills were sharper than ever, I had a vivid vision for the final installment in the series, and I was finally ready to return to my roots with a proper plot outline. In the past, I’ve only outlined the story’s general structure, broken up into three acts. But I wasn’t taking any chances this time. No more 10k word rewrites, no more overstuffed scrap documents—this time, I’d be plotting chapter by chapter so I could work everything out in bullet points before getting into the hard work of bringing the characters and action to life. Not only did this work even better than I’d hoped, it also led to a great discovery!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Grace Notes - Why Faith and Fantasy? - "Fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already... The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon."</image:title>
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      <image:title>Grace Notes - A Magic System Inspired by Scripture? - The Ebenezers</image:title>
      <image:caption>In Gift of the Tiding Bearer, the three main characters each receive an unrefined chunk of ebenezer. The fictional ore is composed of verity, a precious metal, and the ebenezer gem itself. Although a raw ebenezer is traditionally a token that someone has accepted the Giver’s Path (symbolizing the acceptance of salvation), the traditions of the tiding bearers have been lost during the High Ruler’s reign and ebenezers are little more than a jeweler’s legend. Enter, Dara.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gift of the Tiding Bearer, p. 63</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gift of the Tiding Bearer, p. 273</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Grace Notes - I Rewrote An Entire Book After Publishing: Here’s Why - What it actually needed was reconstructive surgery.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Don’t misunderstand me; the concept and plot, and some of the dialogue and characters were decent. After all, the story still managed to touch the hearts of those who read that first edition (you know who you are &lt;3). But I realized that for those good elements to meet their maximum potential, the entire 104k-word manuscript needed to be rewritten. The biggest problems besides a hundred little technical errors (excessive passive voice, “telling not showing,” etc.) were: pace, character portrayal, and consistency with the rest of the series. So let’s get into it.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Grace Notes - I Rewrote An Entire Book After Publishing: Here’s Why - Before I made any changes, I reverse-outlined the story.</image:title>
      <image:caption>I read through the completed manuscript and wrote outlines for each chapter in its original form, then I made notes and brainstormed solutions to the problems I identified.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gift of the Tiding Bearer, p.115</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Grace Notes - How to Say Goodbye: a tribute to the trilogy - Today I wrote the closing words to the trilogy that has been a part of my life for almost four years.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sure, there’s still an epilogue to write, copious amounts of editing and refining, and beta reader feedback to come, but in essence, I’m preparing to step out of Tenebra for the last time. I think I have a little taste of what Peter and Susan must have felt on their list visit to Narnia; at least, I know I’d feel better if I could hug a big fluffy lion right now.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.writesofgrace.com/blog/same-god-different-paths</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-08-03</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Grace Notes - Same God, Different Paths - “God works in different ways.”</image:title>
      <image:caption>It’s a simple statement, but one which is behind almost every decision I made about the unique journeys of each of my characters in Gift of the Tiding Bearer. At the story’s conclusion, the Giver explains how Mavis, Doran, and Errol each have a “heart’s desire” which initially piqued their interest in the Priceless Treasure and directed Dara to take a unique approach in speaking to each of them. It also plays a part in determining which gift Dara gives them and which opportunities tempt them most.</image:caption>
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