Can Your Theme Be Proven In Your Story?
by:
Nick Vernon
Creative Writing Tips –
Your theme has to be thing
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 thing
that happens in real life all the 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… the events of that story have to appear logical.
What is not logical and consequently not plausible is…
A character that has no psychological feature
of computers and nightlong becomes a computer whiz
A car that goes over a cliff, bursts into flames and the character manages to escape unscratched
Etc
These are not plausible because they can’t and don’t happen in real life and our logic doesn’t accept them.
Your theme wish be believed once
you prove it (providing of course you can.) Let’s see how you can do that.
We’ll start with a theme…
“Hard activity leads to success.’
Our story is just about a character whose goal is to reach a social control
position inside
the institution that he works. For the reader to see how the character wish reach his goal I wish show him…
Working hard
Working long hours
Victimisation his initiative
Being responsible
And all those qualities, in the end, wish secure him the promotion he has been aiming for.
So my theme here wish be proven that ‘Hard activity leads to success’ because my character succeeds in the end.
>From the examples I have given so far, you may have detected
that my stories end on a happy note. Yours don’t have to. The ending wish depend on the story you are writing and how you, the writer, prefers to end it.
I could have done the reverse with this theme. I could have said,
“Hard activity doesn’t lead to success.”
My story wish be the same but in the end I wish have the character missing out on the promotion. Some
themes wish be proven because I have proven them in my story.
Any theme can activity in a story providing you can prove it.
Have you proven your theme?
About The Author
Besides his passion for writing, Nick Vernon runs an online gift site wherever
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This article was announce on August 24, 2004
