Two Writers

“Writers take us everywhere we want to go. God wants these two writers to go there themselves.”

Frank is 60-years old. He's been writing Christian novels for 40 years and every minute of it he's worked to build a reputation for good, solid, God honoring work - the kind every Christian writer wants to leave behind as a legacy. He longs to hear Jesus' words, "Well done, good and faithful servant," when he breaths his last. Which he hopes will happen way down the road someplace.

He does realize, though, that after 40 years, he needs to breath some life into his work. For that reason, he takes on a writing partner, Ted, a 30-year old Christian, and writing dynamo who does exactly as Frank hopes. While Frank provides plot and lush narrative, Ted pumps the reader's experience up with quick, spot on dialogue. Both their partnership and the sales of their books flourish.

One day Ted gets a call from Castlerock Entertainment in Hollywood. They've become aware of Ted's work and offer him and Frank jobs as a script doctors. They want the two of them to punch up their dialogue and they're willing to pay big bucks to have them do it. Ted sees this as an opportunity for the two of them to make more money, and influence a greater mission field, while Frank see it as subjecting themselves to far greater, far more alluring temptations, but he primarily sees it as Satan engineering a way to destroy their ministry just when it's really beginning to make a difference. Frank decides to remain. But Ted decides to heed the siren's song and go. Their ministry dissolves. But what happens next? And does what happen prove who was right? Or was there a right? And how does God glorify Himself as the two men go forward, and continue to reveal His endless love and mercy to them even as their ministry fades. “Two Writers” shows the triumphs, joys, and frustrations experienced by those in Christian ministry - writing or otherwise. But as importantly, and perhaps even more so, it examines the sometimes difficult challenge of understanding and identifying God’s call to all those ministries in all our lives.