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

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…

Here are five crucial questions you can use to gut-check yourself about whether or not you've successfully married your plot and theme.

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Take a look at the following creative short story ideas, many of which combine two or more of the popular themes. #writing #writingtips #writingcommunity #writingprompts #writinginspiration #author #amwriting

Crafting theme and symbolism in your story is a difficult task, even for the expert writer. But good storytelling always has more meaning hiding under the surface of each word. Let's look at No Country for Old Men to see how it's done.