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[coffeebeanwriting]

How To Write the Theme of Your Book — Pt. 1: PROVERBS

The theme is what your story is truly about beneath it’s plot and external events (the things that are happening to your characters). It’s something that the author is trying to express to the audience whether it be a lesson, an idea, a belief, etc.

There are a ton of major themes that can be broken down into smaller ones that are woven into your story. A few major themes include: Family, Revenge, War, Death, Good vs. Evil, Coming of Age, Survival, Truth, Redemption, Courage.

Love for example is a major theme that can crumble down into trust, comfort, obsession, self-love, envy, jealousy— you name it. Weaving these smaller themes into your side characters can help create a very well-rounded story. For example, maybe your protagonist is forced to marry an evil king and finds out he is not so evil after all. However, maybe he has a concubine who becomes jealous of your protagonist who is just trying to love herself admits this huge change. The king becomes envious when a knight is over friendly with his new bride-to-be, who begins seeking solace in the knight. A frail elderly servant brings comfort to your protagonist by offering advice, warm baths and a mother-figure.

It can help to create a Proverb for your story's main theme(s). This is a quote or simple phrase that embodies the theme. 

“Not all that glitters is gold” or “A diamond in the rough” 

could refer to a story that is about rags to riches. An underprivileged character with an ability to save the world. A young woman who is gorgeous inside and out, but lives in the grime of an undercity— only for the king the recognize her true beauty one day. 

From my current WIP with a core themes are about Love/Truth/Deception. I recommend creating a web to show your core theme and the smaller ones that branch from it. Here are mine.

My Proverbs: “The Truth Hurts” and “Lying is only a band-aid”

My protagonist has a misbelief that lying protects the people she cares about (and herself). This misbelief comes from a childhood of brutal truths and heartbreaking reality. By the end of her story and character arc, she learns that her lies only create negative effects and that she must trust the people she loves.

Ask yourself: “what is the point that you want to make by telling this story?” 

I want to show/express through my character’s story and arc that lying does not protect the people you love, but rather destroys not only yourself, but the people around you. CREDIT: All this knowledge comes from the book: Story Genius by Lisa Cron.

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[vikandermanips]

Below you will 3 plot ideas for this latest plot request { ♛ }

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PLOT IDEA 1  Tom Holland goes home one Christmas to see his family. His sister is incredibly excited about a new Youtuber (your OC) she has been watching the last couple of months and pesters her big brother to watch it with her, which he does. He really enjoys the videos and finds them interesting/inspiring (depending on what sort of videos you think she makes) He finds out she went to comic con last year and says she will be going this year too. Being that he is already doing a panel there he decides to look out for her when there. At the comic con, they bump into each other and share a few words. Tom tells her how he loves her videos, how she is beautiful etc. She asks if she can film him saying this and take a couple of photos to which he agrees. When she posts this online, things spiral out of control as she gets lots of hate from viewers, which ends up landing her into or back into her old habits.

PLOT IDEA 2  There is a competition in which one lucky competition winner will win a long 3 day weekend away with Tom Holland with the premiere of a his new movie. A young Youtuber (your OC) applied for this and expresses her joy over her channel for having won and decides to post v-logs on her journey. This sets place in London (but could be anywhere) where she has never been before which makes it more exciting. They do various things in the day such as going on the London Eye and visiting London Dungeons etc. From their time together they start to develop feelings for each other. On their last day together, Tom finds out about her eating disorder and strives to try and help make her better.  

PLOT IDEA 3  Tom Holland has a male Youtuber friend, who he originally knew when they went to school together before Tom went into acting. One night Tom goes to see his friend who brings his girlfriend along with one of her friends which happens to be (your OC) another Youtuber. Tom and (your character) really hit it off and swap numbers. Things get closer between the two as they go on a few dates but the paparazzi hounds them, making ( your OC) very anxious and worsens her eating disorder to the extent where Tom (who has been kept in the dark about this) finds out. He gives an ultimatum that she needs to try and get better or he can't see her anymore, purely as it would be too painful to see her suffering so much and knows it's only a journey she can furfill herself.

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