EXERCISE: Literary themes?
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writercises Original Posting Oct. 13, 2018
Over here
https://writersedit.com/fiction-writing/10-most-popular-literary-theme-examples/
They provide a list of the 10 most popular literary themes! So... pick a number from one to ten (hah! Roll a D20 and divide by 2? Pull a dollar bill out of your pocket, and look at the last digit of the serial number? How about look at a digital clock, and take the last digit of the time? One way or another, pick a number from one to ten, okay?)
Here's what you have picked:
1. Love
2. Death
3. Good versus evil
4. Coming of age
5. Power and corruption
6. Survival
7. Courage and heroism
8. Prejudice
9. Individual versus society
10. War
If you want to, go over to their site and check out the examples they provide for each category. But basically, take that theme, which is probably reasonably familiar, and try wringing your own version out of it. Short story, poetry, a novel, a series... take your pick, but try to tie that theme into the story, and make us laugh, make us cry, make us feel the story come to life...
WRITE!
Over here
https://writersedit.com/fiction-writing/10-most-popular-literary-theme-examples/
They provide a list of the 10 most popular literary themes! So... pick a number from one to ten (hah! Roll a D20 and divide by 2? Pull a dollar bill out of your pocket, and look at the last digit of the serial number? How about look at a digital clock, and take the last digit of the time? One way or another, pick a number from one to ten, okay?)
Here's what you have picked:
1. Love
2. Death
3. Good versus evil
4. Coming of age
5. Power and corruption
6. Survival
7. Courage and heroism
8. Prejudice
9. Individual versus society
10. War
If you want to, go over to their site and check out the examples they provide for each category. But basically, take that theme, which is probably reasonably familiar, and try wringing your own version out of it. Short story, poetry, a novel, a series... take your pick, but try to tie that theme into the story, and make us laugh, make us cry, make us feel the story come to life...
WRITE!