Themes may bring bad memories from literary theory classes, however, learn how the theme is the most powerful part of your story.
Tag: Story
When I Grow Up
Grown up is an undefined state, which heavily involves life goals and dreams. Growing at different paces, we are all trying to grow up to be something.
Story Mapping
A while ago I wrote Novel Planning about different ways that you can plan out a story. Mapping things out is something that's important to me because I like the structure. In middle school I remember writing a story that I was enjoying, but then I realized that it kept going on and on, I'd… Continue reading Story Mapping
Beginnings Times Ten
Ideas don't drop out of the sky fully developed. A process of ten hundred beginnings is what develops ideas. Take the snippet you have and run with it.
Living as Productively as a Story
When I first started writing stories I would have characters and one adventure and event after another. The characters were always moving along from one task to the next. But I realized, that even with a notebook full of events, I didn't really have a story. What I had was busy characters that weren't really… Continue reading Living as Productively as a Story