A blog about Jonathan Langford’s writing, and especially about his novel, No Going Back, which features a gay (same-sex attracted) Mormon teenager who struggles to stay faithful to his religious beliefs.
I was reading a post over at the AML blog by Annette Lyon, an author of six LDS novels, when I started to get nervous. She was talking about the importance of not writing didactically, where the message drives the story. I was wondering what she would think of my novel, when I encountered the following:
Annette Lyon: NGB Avoids “Didactic Landmine”
Monday, January 18th, 2010I was reading a post over at the AML blog by Annette Lyon, an author of six LDS novels, when I started to get nervous. She was talking about the importance of not writing didactically, where the message drives the story. I was wondering what she would think of my novel, when I encountered the following:
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