I recently started a new novel. I’ve only been working on it for a few weeks, but it’s already given me an epiphany. I looked at my last book as a collection of elements, all independent from one another. I spent the first round of revision working out plot kinks, the next developing character, the…
Tag: Themes
Writing Romance: The Warrior Poet
The last romance hero archetype we’ll look at is the Warrior Poet. The website TVTropes says this about the WP, “He’s fought in a battle and is no slouch at war making, but he thinks about the purpose behind all the bloodshed and philosophizes on the meaning of life and death. Remember the last line…
WRITING THEMES: Do we choose them? Or do they choose us? by Joan Johnston
Why do all my books have “abandoned or neglected children” as an underlying theme? Until about book 25 (I’m writing book 57 now), when another writer pointed it out to me, I had no idea that this issue resonated throughout my writing. I’d grown up in a family of seven children and my parents had remained…