{"id":458,"date":"2012-09-06T12:08:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T17:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/?p=458"},"modified":"2012-09-08T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T21:04:13","slug":"transcript-the-novelist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/transcript-the-novelist\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript: The Novelist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/novelist-250.gif\" rel=\"colorbox\" class=\"colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-368\" title=\"The Novelist\" src=\"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/novelist-250.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a>Angela Hunt is one of my favorite fiction writers primarily because her contemporary tales usually remind me of a biblical story in the subtlest way, without forcing the analogy.\u00a0<strong><em>The Novelist<\/em><\/strong>, published in 2006 by Thomas Nelson, is especially intriguing because it is a story-within-a-story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Jordan Casey, a famous author of super spy, action novels, agrees to teach a fiction-writing class at a community college. When criticized by one of her students for the unemotional, plot-driven novels she\u2019s accustomed to writing, Jordon agrees to write a novel over the weeks of the course, allowing the class to observe and question her writing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Excerpts of the novel Jordan writes are interspersed within the pages of Jordan\u2019s own story which is the major part of the book. That story centers around her twenty-one-year-old, mentally ill, alcoholic son, Zack. Jordan\u2019s classroom novel, titled\u00a0<em><strong>The Ambassador<\/strong><\/em>, is a loose allegory of the\u00a0<em><strong>Genesis<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0account of Adam and Eve. Free will, temptation, and Jordan\u2019s plotted provision for her character\u2019s ultimate redemption are all reminiscent of God\u2019s creation story. Jordon, the teacher and author, writes herself into the plot of\u00a0<em><strong>The Ambassador<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Of course, it isn\u2019t possible for a created character in a book to initiate interaction with the author. Nor is it possible for Adam, Eve, or me, as human beings, to initiate a relationship with our Creator. However, the Creator or Author, in this case, can establish an interactive relationship with His characters by writing Himself into our story, just like Jordan did in hers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Hunt is one of my favorite fiction writers primarily because her contemporary tales usually remind me of a biblical story in the subtlest way, without forcing the analogy.\u00a0The Novelist, published in 2006 by Thomas Nelson, is especially intriguing because it is a story-within-a-story. Jordan Casey, a famous author of super spy, action novels, agrees [&hellip;]&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/transcript-the-novelist\/\" class=\"post-read-more\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-transcript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}