Friday Snippet: Theme and Concept

As promised, one complete chapter (and one complete tool) in the Plot Clinic. As voted on by you folks, that chapter is: Chapter 11: Theme and Concept.

All the usual disclaimers apply: spellos, typos, copyright, no reprint, yadda, yadda.

Things will be getting hectic later, so I want to post this now before I forget.

Plot Clinic: Chapter 11–Theme and Concept

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By Holly

Novelist, writing teacher, on a mission to reprint my out-of-print books and indie-publish my new ones.

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IanT
16 years ago

Excellent stuff, Holly, and as far as I’m concerned, perfectly timed – I’m struggling to pick out the clear themes in the mass of my 150k first draft.

Zink Johnson
Zink Johnson
16 years ago

LOL, hockey- a sport to conquer all others. I’m guessing, though, that a lot of the advice of finding themes both before and after a book is written is similiar, because I’m pretty sure a lot of that awesomeness was also touched upon in 1st stage of One-Pass Revision. Of course, I loved it and read both of them over anyway. 😀

Annalisa
16 years ago

This is so awesome. Again, your tone is so approachable. Businesslike, but fun and full of realistic expectations. I think that’s especially important for this section (although it’s important to all of them) because identifying themes can be so damn daunting!

And wow, a character named Annalise? That’s actually my real name, so it’s pretty cool to see it used in a book of any kind. That’s never happened to me before. Yay!

Jass
Jass
16 years ago

Thank you, Holly. It’s just like xmas. Drool.

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