For me, I’ve been thinking about this for a bit and I am conflicted on what that is.
I am too early in the game or not really. Yet the theme for my story is revenge and yet it is also falsehood.
Like, revenge is a dark bittersweet thing, but sinister lies are far more sour than anything else is the tag line for the story.
Anjan desires revenge, yet unveiling the dark secrets and skeletons the empire was built on is what will destroy the world.
So, it’s revenge and inability to handle the shocking truth.
That is considered the theme. Thinking harder about it, the things that the members of the court want Anjan to handle and keep the public from knowing are in ties with the dark secrets that the empire is keeping from the entire world.
If there is a third theme, it will be false gods rule over us or something like that.
But enough about me, what are the themes or morals of your current novel?
I feel like there are more themes in my novel, but the main ones are revenge, corruption, and falsehood.
Give me the theme that make your story in big ways or small ways. I prefer if it is something simple or something that stands out. If you don’t really have that yet, then that is fine. Maybe the comments will reveal something in due time.
Hmm…so placing the real experiences into your story as a front for the themes, I see?
In terms of my novel, I mainly think it’s me questioning what happen if the world revealed the horrible lies to the people blind by what is actually going on and what really happened. Yet in the midst of it all a random individual seeking revenge for what happened will be either the world’s savior or reason for it’s destruction or even both.
Ooh! I like that!
Make you really question is forgiveness truly a justified thing.
People state that you should forgive the ones who hurt you even though what they done wasn’t the greatest of things. I mean you can “forgive”, but the wounds they’ve inflicted won’t let you forget, not ever.
It causes people to become conflicted on what is right and wrong in the end.
The theme for my first book is finding self and being who you are regardless of what the world expects from you. There are other underlying themes as well, but that’s the big one. I’m unsure what the themes will be in my next books on an individual scale, but I know that the overall theme through the whole series will be corruption and redemption, that it’s never too late to make things right, second chances, rising from the ashes and all that. That one is heavily hinted at in my first book too.
Why choose those themes for your novel? What about it entices you to create the story that you have? Is there a certain message you want readers to be able to gather from reading your novels?
In terms of my first book, those are themes I have at the moment, but you mentioned the themes for your other books and that has me thinking a bit ahead before the very start of book 2.
I mean, I do incorporate themes, but I don’t agenize them, per se, from the start. They kind of come out of my frustration with bad plots and tropes, “This ain’t right!” things. But being too focused on agenda is preachy and ruins the story too often.
I agree that you don’t need to intentionally plan themes into a book, but as you write they tend to emerge on their own. So far, these are the themes that keep surfacing in my wip:
• grief and loss
• homophobia
• courting disaster instead of seeking safety
• destruction and rebuilding
• vengeance
Mine doesn’t really have any, in the sense you’re thinking. I don’t think about it much at all, either, or the morals in my stories. I’m not a preacher or a fable writer. I’m here to entertain you, not convince of agendas.
