Story themes ideas

Choosing themes for your stories or novels consciously gives you the focus you need to develop and enrich your character arcs. Learn more.

While structure and prose are essential to a successful story, often a story’s true soul is found in a less obvious element of the writing craft; theme. Your story’s theme is rooted in more than perfectly timed story beats and fancy words, because it’s about the cohesive feel and energy of your novel. Ultimately, this theme is what makes your story feel real. #theme #novelwriting

Are you planning on writing romance into your story as a subplot or a main theme? Whichever it is, it's important to get your readers… | Instagram

Digital Whisper Blog has challenges us to comlplete 100 digital pieces for a list of themes. The rules are: *New art for every theme. *No two themes in one piece of artwork. *You have a year time limit. *You can just dip in as and when you feel like it, in any order, so it will be easy to fit in around your other commitments. *Set up a separate folder for your work *When a new work is completed, leave a message on the blog, with a link to said work in your folder, so that we can all access…

copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman The four primary elements of fiction are plot, character, setting, and theme. Associated with most of these is a cluster of related components: plot is divisible into exposition, inciting moment, rising action, turning point, falling action, moment of final suspense, and (depending upon whether the narrative is a comedy or a tragedy) resolution or catastrophe. Of course, all plots are also derived from, and developed upon, conflict. Likewise, setting is not…

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