“Uncover the Secret Threads: How to Seamlessly Infuse Deep Themes into Your Writing!”
How to Choose Your Story’s Theme
Your theme doesn’t have to be complicated. It can be one sentence, a simple phrase, or just one word. In fact, the simpler and more straightforward the theme, the better.
Think of your theme as the one idea you want your readers to keep in the back of their minds during and after reading the story.
For an example, let’s pretend we are going to write a story about an old woman recounting the long life she’s lived.
The theme we want to convey is “passage of time.”
But what does this mean? What will this say about your character experiencing your story, and how can you make this clear to the reader without being overly obvious? What will my story say about the passage of time?
