Have You Tested Your Theme Against Your Plot?
by:
Nick Vernon
Creative Writing Tips –
How we commonly begin the preparation stage in the writing process is…
We think of an idea for a story
We think of a suitable theme
We plot
Once we move up with a theme and we begin plotting, we have to see how the theme and the plot match up. Sometimes as we plot we find that the theme we had at first chosen won’t do.
For example…
‘Winning The Lottery Does Your Life Easier’
Plotting with this theme in mind, we have our characters pay off all their debts, go on endless purchasing
sprees, go on holidays, etc. We find tho'
that this won’t do a really engrossing story. So we spice it up, adding to the theme or coming up with a some one.
“Winning The Lottery Does Your Life Easier But Everything Has Its Price.”
We can show the characters living the life of the rich for a patch before they realize that being flush has its problems too...
They now fear for their security
Their friends and relatives are perpetually
harping at their door asking for assistance
Etc
This second scenario creates much problems for the characters, so it’s much engrossing for us readers.
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The preparation stage is there to prepare before you write. It’s our bench wherever
we numbers everything out. We test our theme, we test our plot and once everything passes the test, then we begin writing.
You can change the theme as many a times as you feel it necessarily changing, patch you are in the preparation stage.
The main thing is to do your story interesting.
It’s not a nice idea to support dynamic the theme once
writing the story because then you wish have to support dynamic the story. This means rewriting.
Figure everything out then write.
Have you tested your theme against your plot?
About The Author
Besides his passion for writing, Nick Vernon runs an online gift site wherever
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This article was denote
on August 24, 2004
