Is The Theme Running Throughout The Story?

It’s no use coming up with a theme and not using it. Short stories are about a character or characters and about one situation or happening in those characters’ lives.

By concentrating on that one thing, our stories are focused. You will need to focus tohttps://shakuryukou.com/
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maintain a level of intensity and sticking to the theme enables us to do that.

Let me give you an example…

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Scenario One

Let’s say your story is about a young man (main character) who is being harassed (one situation) by the school bully (secondary character.) Let’s place the setting in grade school.

Now if we focus on that single happening and in our story say….

•What started the bullying

•What the main character felt, confronted with this problem

•What the main character did to overcome this problem