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Chapter 002 Theme
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2020-07-29 19:54:34You need a theme for you story. A theme, is the groundwork of any story. Stories will fall without it.
How could you find the right theme for you?
Creation is a process that can start at anytime and anywhere. Maybe your groundwork is something inspires you; maybe it’s just an idea you get in a shower, or a bizarre fantasy you have bearing with the boring life; or it’s a “what if” discussion you have with yourself when you watch the news. Don’t rush into building your groundwork. Take you time before you start your story and make sure that you know, what is it that you are trying to deliver. That, is your theme.
A theme is not a word, but a full sentence. For instance, “Love can be found anywhere and everywhere in life, so long as we conquer our ration and follows our instincion.” This, is a theme that you can build a lot of stories on: it can be a story about a desperate wife finding her true love in a one-night stand out of sorrow; it can be a story about a high IQ CEO changed from a cold bossy jerk to a loving partner after he falls in love with a special girl. So if you add the supernatural features to this theme, you will get a fantasy about “a tormenting love story of an alpha with a dying pack falling in love with a human girl who is bullied in school.”
There are a hundred different themes in a hundred best-sellings. Maybe you don’t like some of them, maybe they even look cliche to you, but ALL, all these themes would be structured around our own humanity that will get to you deep in your heart, so long as you are not a sociopath, that is.
There is no shallow or profound theme. It can be about love, or it can be about humanity. It can be a fight between right or wrong, or it can be a conflict between the power of the nature, and the persistence of human. You enter a fantasy world the moment you got ignited by the spart of an inspiration. All you need now is a suitable design, and the rest, is just building on the idea, and make it into an alive story.
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