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Does Your Theme Contain Character, Conflict, and Resolution?
Creative Writing Tips â??
For a theme to work and the story, which will revolve around the theme, it has to contain three thingsâ?¦
1. Character
2. Conflict
3. Resolution
Whatâ??s the reason for this?
If your theme doesnâ??t contain these three essential elements, then you wonâ??t be writing a proper short story. It might turn out to be an essay instead.
Because withoutâ?¦
1) Characters
You canâ??t achieve emotional depth. Readers become engrossed in stories because of the characters in them. They either become the character (sympathize), or read about an interesting person (empathize).
Emotional depth is achieved when readers use their imagination and senses and/or experiences to live the story through the characters.
2) Conflict
Your story will be boring. Why? Without conflict, something to stir things up, nothing happens. And a story, in which nothing happens, is one not worth writing about.
Your characters donâ??t lead carefree lives. Well, not in the instance you are writing about them. In that part of their lives they are faced with a problem. They want something and canâ??t get it because of the conflict, which is preventing them to do so.
And itâ??s that conflict and the struggle the characters has to undergo that keeps us readers interested and in suspense. Will the character succeed or wonâ??t he? And when is this all going to happen? And how is it all going to happen?
3) Resolution
Something that starts has to finish, one way or another.
Once you have created great characters, which the reader will come to care about, and you have placed them in conflict, that conflict at the end of your story has to be resolved. The characters will achieve their goals or they wonâ??t.
That doesnâ??t matter.
You can end your story as you please and as it suits your story â?? but you have to end it. Ending the story means resolving the conflict.
Does your theme contain character, conflict, resolution?
