Is The Theme Reinforced In The Ending?
by:
Nick Vernon
Creative Writing Tips –
By now you should have an idea that your theme has to reach its conclusion simply as your story does. But our theme has to do much than reach its conclusion – it has to be reinforced in the end and by doing this, it wish strengthen all that we have aforesaid in our story.
So if we took a theme…
‘Persist and in the end you wish succeed’
And I showed my character working hard to accomplish his goals, persisting, even as if at times those goals seemed unreachable, then I would’ve showed that all his hard activity did pay off in the end. By having him succeed, it would-be reinforce the theme that had been running throughout the story.
Let me further illustrate this point by giving you a much elaborate example.
The theme is…
‘Persistence pays off’
The story is simply about a writer, who has been writing short stories for years, but has not succeeded in acquiring promulgated yet.
In your story you wish show his persistence with…
How he does time to write, even as once
his day is already full by his full time job and another responsibilities
How his every thought is consumed by his writing
Showing him causing story after story to publishers
How he doesn’t let the fact that his family believe he’s wasting his time, distract him from his intention
Simultaneously I wish place him in win and lose situations - Losing once
his stories are rejected - Winning once
he receives encouraging notes from publishers.
And in those instances wherever
he is winning, I wish show bit by bit that resistance is starting to pay off, till I reach the end of my story wherever
I wish have one of his stories accepted for publication and thus bring my theme of ‘Persistence pays off’ to its conclusion.
By showing the reader how persistence is paying off, I would-be have reinforced the theme in my ending.
Is your theme reinforced in the end of your story?
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
