Writing: Is The Theme Running Throughout The Story?

Is The Theme Running Throughout The Story?

Written by Nick Vernon

Creative Writing Tips –

It’s no use coming up with a theme and not using it. Short stories are about a character or characters and about one situation or happening in those characters’ lives.

By concentrating on that one thing, our stories are focused. You will need to focus to maintain a level of intensity and sticking to repparttar theme enables us to do that.

Let me give you an example…

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Scenario One

Let’s say your story is about a young man (main character) who is being harassed (one situation) by repparttar 128846 school bully (secondary character.) Let’s place repparttar 128847 setting in grade school.

Now if we focus on that single happening and in our story say….

•What started repparttar 128848 bullying

•What repparttar 128849 main character felt, confronted with this problem

•What repparttar 128850 main character did to overcome this problem

•If repparttar 128851 main character won or lost against repparttar 128852 bully…

Then we’ll be focusing only on that incident which is what our story is about.

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Scenario Two

Now if we took that situation further and in our story said that this character grew up and was bullied in high school and then later by a colleague…

That will be listing three incidences, which will weaken our story because we are not focusing.

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Remember a short story is short.

We don’t have too much leeway to develop too many things so we have to be selective with what we choose to concentrate on. Short stories work best when they span over a short period of time.

The Internet and Tom Robbins are both windows into new realities

Written by Jesse S. Somer

These days I go on to repparttar

Internet not having any clue as to what is going to grab my interest on that particular day. What is slowly seeping into my subconscious like sludge into repparttar 128844

sewer is

idea that I’m probably going to learn something new of interest to my already strange and twisted human existence. Whether repparttar 128846

information turns out to be credible is another issue altogether seeing that my fellow human weirdoes are prone to repparttar 128847

occasional exaggeration and ‘white lie’. Nonetheless, every time I go for a so-called ‘surf’ into repparttar 128848

deep blue waves of social consciousness I seem to find myself sitting on some new island of information that inevitably causes a smile to crack across my crystallized serious Internet writer’s façade that I must present to my colleagues so that they don’t uncover my secret true identity, that being that I’m a Sweet Medicine Clown from repparttar 128849

planet Zepton. That last sentence’s structure is dedicated to repparttar 128850

mastery of Tom Robbins.

Today’s particular Internet search was triggered by memories of laughter caused by repparttar 128851 reading of books by a fellow named Tom Robbins. Although this guy has written eight awesome novels, most people I ask have never heard of him. After searching for sites dedicated to him I did discover that a lot of other people have read his stuff and actually feel very strongly about it. The main site I found was called repparttar 128852 AFTRLife at http://www.rain.org/~da5e/tom_robbins.html. The real buzz I experienced was repparttar 128853 biographical information I learnt about Robbins’ personal history, I mean it’s one thing to really be affected by someone’s fictional writing, but another dimension altogether to read about what they supposedly got up to in their life.

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