162: Reading and Writing Catholic Fiction ft. Lindsey Todd
The Catholic Feminist
Claire Swinarski
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This ones for my book nerds: where you at? 📚If you love Jesus and love books, but don't always love books *about* Jesus, this ones for you. Author Lindsey Todd and I are talking about why she writes novels, why we think so much Catholic fiction falls flat for us, and why it's important for Catholics to read outside of our bubbles from time to time. We also chat about her work with the Chastity Project and she tries to convince me to outline my writing projects, which...I'm still not 100% sold on. Impulse Writer 4 Life. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Catholic feminist episode 162. Today's episode is all |
| 0:06.7 | about reading and writing fiction while being a Catholic feminist. Today's |
| 0:11.6 | episode is brought to you by audible for a free audiobook and a |
| 0:15.0 | free 30-day trial head to audibletrial.com slash Catholic. Today's episode is |
| 0:20.0 | also brought to you by the Classic Learning Test at CLT exam.com you can learn all |
| 0:25.3 | about this classic SAT-AC- alternative. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome to the Catholic feminist, a podcast for strong women who want to be informed, |
| 0:36.0 | inspired, and intentional. |
| 0:37.8 | I'm your host, Claire, and I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello and happy Wednesday, whether this is your first episode or your 160 second one, I am so glad that you're here. |
| 1:01.0 | I am just more thankful than ever for this community in the times |
| 1:05.2 | that we're living in the times when we feel so disconnected and so divisive. I'm so |
| 1:11.3 | glad that we can get together and have really robust conversations where we |
| 1:16.0 | disagree but still see each other as members of the body of Christ. As a lot of |
| 1:21.7 | you know being the Catholic feminist isn't actually my day job. |
| 1:25.8 | I spend a lot of hours every single day writing fiction for kids. |
| 1:30.4 | I'm a middle grade author and if you want to learn more about my books you can go to |
| 1:34.0 | Claire swanarski.com but I've always had a really big passion for fiction. I'm a huge |
| 1:40.3 | fiction reader and actually if I'm reading non-fiction or spiritual books often I'm like making myself |
| 1:46.3 | fiction is usually where I go in the library and so I'm really thrilled today to be talking to Lindsay Todd, a Catholic author who shares my passion. |
| 1:57.0 | We're talking all about her new book and why she writes Catholic fiction, what she sees really missing from that genre, and her passion for |
| 2:05.9 | the Chastity Project. So without further ado, let's jump on into my conversation |
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