theme

Here in the Northern hemisphere the feeble light is ever darkening and, quicker than you can say Jack Frost, it will be St Lucie’s Day; the moment in the calendar when the world's whole sap is sunk. I love that poem, I always return to it at this time of year. There is something atavistic about...

I've just watched an interview with John Bucher on the YouTube channel Film Courage, Everybody Tells Stories But Not Every One Is A Writer. The interview covers Bucher's perspective on what it is to be a writer and how writers tend to revisit the same themes in their stories. I find Bucher's...

Hmm, theme, there's nothing like it for getting writers all worked up, from the slavish adherents to the dismissive free spirits. One school of thought defines theme like this: It's dangerous for a fiction writer to say something is absolutely true. That's not what theme is at all. A...

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion...the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate. Dorothea Lange

So, I'm writing, writing and thinking, thinking and writing. I'm thinking, what the hell is this novel about? The theme of this novel, what is it? Well, it's about grief. It's about friendship. It's about what it means to be a hero. I know this to be true because that's how I planned it before...