When I first heard about this session at Christian Writer Con ’26, I didn’t even know who was giving it.
I’m a speaker, so I saw the early version of the schedule.
The one without all the important info.
But the title of the session immediately drew me in.
“Bleed on the Page: How to ground your fiction in real life without making it all about you.”
I actually assumed it was by Brad Pauquette or Noah J. Matthews, just based on the title.
But when the conference website went live, I found out the speaker is Thirzah, a clean fantasy author.
Blood equals…splashes of color?
When I say stories “splashed with color and emotion,” I mean the same thing that most writers say when they talk about “bleeding on the page.”
We all try to put our real experiences on the page.
Creative writing is such a personal art form. Books give you the opportunity to live inside someone else’s head for a few hours. And the best books come from deep places inside of an author.
So it makes sense that our personal experiences make it onto the page.
I don’t write gritty stuff most of the time. I write things to fill your life with light…so the image I use to talk about deep stories is different than the image Thirzah used.
(Seriously, for someone who writes clean romance, she puts a decent amount of action on the page. Her debut book had a murder on page two!!)
No selfishness allowed
At the core of it, being a Christian author is being a servant.
Being a Christian in general is being a servant.
But it strikes me that someone who aspires to public ministry, who writes stories that subconsciously shape minds and cultures…should be a servant most of all.
So I’ve been pressing deeper into servanthood the last couple months.
I’ve been trying to carve out all my selfishness and give my life even more to God.
That’s the second thing that struck me about Thirzah’s speech. I think a lot of authors teach that you have to draw from deep places of yourself without the servanthood part.
Thirzah specifies: “Without making it all about you.”
And that’s important.
You should come
I don’t want to mess around. I think this conference might just be the thing you need (if you’re a writer).
In fact, I think it might be THE clinch-point to help you launch into what God’s calling you to.
Early bird registration ends tomorrow. It’s majorly discounted until then (like $30 off) and it’s not crazy expensive in the first place.
You should register: https://writers.company/christianwritercon?aff=vella-karman
I’d love to have you attend my session, but don’t go for me. Go for yourself.
If you think this is something God’s put in your heart, invest in it!
I know that the heart of every single member of the team at this conference is to give you the absolute most value that we possibly can. We’ve been praying over this for months. And I think it will seriously deliver. I think this is the breakthrough a ton of Christian authors need.
Register now: https://writers.company/christianwritercon?aff=vella-karman
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