When I started writing, I was pretty hung up on my stories having to be about things. But then at some point, I realized that just telling a story was so hard, I'd better step back and learn how to do that, and worry about theme later.
And just what you said happened--the themes found their own way in, and the stories wound up being about things, when I wasn't trying and was just focusing on the story itself. In a way they didn't when I consciously tried to put that stuff there.
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Date: 2005-07-20 11:09 pm (UTC)And just what you said happened--the themes found their own way in, and the stories wound up being about things, when I wasn't trying and was just focusing on the story itself. In a way they didn't when I consciously tried to put that stuff there.