Can Your Theme Be Proved In Your Story?

Written by Nick Vernon


Creative Writing Tips –

Your theme has to be something you can prove in your story - It doesn’t have to be a universal truth. This means that your theme doesn’t have to be something that happens in real life allrepparttar time (providing our logic can accept it, in order for us to believe it).

Whatever story you choose to write, be it a contemporary or a story which requires elements of fantasy such as in horror, science fiction etc…repparttar 128873 events of that story have to appear logical.

What is not logical and consequently not believable is…

A character that has no knowledge of computers and overnight becomes a computer whiz

A car that goes over a cliff, bursts into flames andrepparttar 128874 character manages to escape unscratched

Etc

These are not believable because they can’t and don’t happen in real life and our logic doesn’t accept them.

Your theme will be believed when you prove it (providing of course you can.) Let’s see how you can do that.

We’ll start with a theme…

“Hard work leads to success.’

Our story is about a character whose goal is to reach a managerial position withinrepparttar 128875 company that he works. Forrepparttar 128876 reader to see howrepparttar 128877 character will reach his goal I will show him…

Creative Writing Tips - Does The Name You Chose Suit Your Character?

Written by Nick Vernon


How do you choose a name? Do you put downrepparttar first name that pops into your mind? Initially that’s what I used to do, until someone pointed out to me that there are a few things to take into consideration when choosing a name…

1.You Have To Be Comfortable With It

We associate names with people we know. If you like a certain name but know and dislike a person who bears it, will you feel comfortable using that name in your story?

Will you mentally shut that person out or will you be reminded of them each time you type that name?

Our characters have to be likable to us before they can become likeable to our readers. Will your dislike for that person transfer to your character?

2.It Must Be Easy To Pronounce

The English language can be, at times, misleading. How many words, and even names we spell one way and pronounce another? Ifrepparttar 128871 name you have chosen falls into this category, will your readers know how to pronounce it?

For years I use to pronouncerepparttar 128872 beautiful name ‘Sean’ exactly how it’s written ‘Seen,’ when it’s pronounced byrepparttar 128873 much nicer sounding ‘Shorn.’ Willrepparttar 128874 name you choose bearrepparttar 128875 same problem?

If you choose a difficult pronouncing name for your character and worse, one that’s not widely known, you stand to loserepparttar 128876 effect of that name. A beautiful sounding name can be utterly destroyed if your reader doesn’t know how to pronounce it.

Your story has to flow. Ifrepparttar 128877 name you’ve chosen is not easy to pronounce,repparttar 128878 readers will constantly stop each time they come across it. This will disruptrepparttar 128879 flow of your story.

3.Foreign Sounding Names

The same asrepparttar 128880 above applies to foreign sounding names. They must be easy to pronounce. Considerrepparttar 128881 following:

Yahiya Indihar Gschu Lyudmila

These names sound exotic but they don’t exactly roll offrepparttar 128882 tongue. Should you compromiserepparttar 128883 flow ofrepparttar 128884 story forrepparttar 128885 sake of a name?

4.Does The Name Suit Your Character?

Not all names suit all people and not all names will suit all characters. Like clothing and hairstyles, names go out of fashion too.

For example...

Let’s say your heroine is a lively, upbeat, modern lady. Will it suit her type of personality if we chooserepparttar 128886 name ‘Mabel’? ‘Mabel’ we usually associate with an elderly aunt or grandmother.

What about your hero? Let’s say he’s a young man who possesses a powerful personality. Willrepparttar 128887 name ‘Hubert?’ suit him? ‘Hubert’ would suit an elderly character or perhaps a ‘quiet’ character.

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