/lit/ - Literature

>>20575324
This is going to be very abstract advice. Take a moment to meditate on your story and what it is. Feel into the themes that are latent and/or possible in your story, then lean into them heavily enough that they don't become on-the-nose so much as taken off the beaten path. Think about what you might say about the human condition by speaking through them. What philosophical and psychologic things can you teach readers about the experience of being usurped? What can you tell us about the deeply personal desolation of wandering a place that was once "yours". What is it for a large mass of land to have been "yours" in the first place? What can you tell us about someone who wanders around in disguise, an unfamiliar face in an environment that is all too familiar? What is it, really, to take back your place from an usurper? Does that "spot" even exist anymore as it once did? Has anything changed?

Anybody know any way to interpret Romans 13:1-10 in any way other than that which degrades Gods sense of justice by means that essentially to break the law is to sin, and in America where there are around 40k laws on the books, everything is essentially sinful?

My absolute favorite depiction of Christ. Showing him suffering in a very human way makes it much more powerful.