Does Your Theme Contain Character, Conflict, Resolution?
by:
Nick Vernon
Creative Writing Tips –
For a theme to activity and the story, which wish revolve about the theme, it has to contain three things…
Character
Conflict
Solution
What’s the reason for this?
If your theme doesn’t contain these three essential elements, then you won’t be writing a proper short story. It strength
turn out to be an essay instead.
Because without…
1) Characters
You can’t bring home the bacon emotional depth. Readers become engrossed in stories because of the characters in them. They either become the character (sympathize), or see just about an exciting person (empathize).
Emotional depth is achieved once
readers use their imagination and senses and/or experiences to live the story through the characters.
2) Conflict
Your story wish be boring. Why? Without conflict, thing
to stir things up, nothing happens. And a story, in which nothing happens, is one not worth writing about.
Your characters don’t lead carefree lives. Well, not in the instance you are writing just about them. In that part of their lives they are janus-faced with a problem. They want thing
and can’t get it because of the conflict, which is preventing them to do so.
And it’s that conflict and the struggle the characters has to undergo that keeps us readers interested and in suspense. Wish the character succeed or won’t he? And once
is this all going to happen? And how is it all going to happen?
3) Solution
Something that starts has to finish, one way or another.
Once you have created great characters, which the reader wish move to care about, and you have placed them in conflict, that conflict at the end of your story has to be resolved. The characters wish bring home the bacon their goals or they won’t.
That doesn’t matter.
You can end your story as you please and as it suits your story – but you have to end it. Ending the story means partitioning
the conflict.
Does your theme contain character, conflict, resolution?
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
