Questions tagged [theme]
'Theme' refers to a message being conveyed to the reader by the author, through a piece of creative writing, usually a novel.
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Is thematic character naming off putting?
Is naming a character to go with a theme or setting of a novel off-putting for the reader? Does this pull them out of the story?
For example:
A character named digit in a cyberpunk future or
one named ...
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Does a story necessarily need a theme?
I'm writing a short story
From what I understand, the theme is the message that I want to send across. Akin to Beauty and the Beast's "Don't judge a book by its cover" theme, or "Opposites attract."
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How can I have my characters do bad things, without sending the wrong message?
I am writing a novel in which characters do bad things to one another. For example, I have recently been struggling over a scene of domestic violence.
Essentially, a husband hits his wife, after the ...
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Should I focus on ideas which the market enjoys, or ideas which I enjoy?
Two approaches to writing:
Writing about ideas that are currently 'hot' in the market (a bit like when the Hunger Games came out, many authors quickly released books which incorporated the same set ...
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Struggling with the number of themes in my work
So, I'm a big picture person. What I like best, in life, and when I write, is bringing a lot of very different elements together. But as a result, both my fiction and non-fiction tend to be ...
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How do I include a powerful theme in my story without making it blatantly obvious? [duplicate]
I want to have an underlying message in my writing but I really don't want it to come across as annoying or too preachy.
Thanks!
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Is BDSM becoming mainstream?
Seems that in the last decade there is more and more stories with a BDSM arc.
For instance:
The Fifty Shades series
The Sword of Truth series
The Black Dagger Brotherhood series
I remember when I ...