It feels wise to have more clarity about my theme, about what I'm trying to say.
Any thoughts on what I'm exploring are deeply appreciated.
Thank you
Aisling
'm trying to understand theme more deeply. It seems a wise way to try to contain the plethora of material that wonderfully and wantonly comes flowing in during writing.
I remember listening to a tape where the woman talked about her theme...it was 'the passage through the dark leads to the light' or another was' the willingness to step into the water, gives you the courage to swim.'
I am exploring the alchemical dissolve and congeal and how that relates to Solutio and Neptune.
What I mean is I believe that with a strong neptune influence there is a desire to dissolve into many things. Over time we learn to dissolve into wiser and wiser things. I thought to have my detective have to dissolve into a mystery in order to solve it.
She will find the old ways of dissolving don't work as well any longer, and that new ones have to be discovered.
so then what is my theme?
I believe that every day we each need to consciously encounter other realms and to have the courage to dissolve into them.
This would not work if i was pitching it. let me try again I believe that altered states of consciousness are as real as the so called ordinary reality and that in order to find an ever deepening way to dance with the mystic one must be willing to over dissolve...(not quite..yikes) and then to discover how to dissolve in ever more contained ways..but how can you be contained and still dissolve?
and yet if i am to understand the next level of theme, i have to dissolve my understanding of what theme is now....
I'm not sure how to create a theme from this..Any help greatly appreciated.
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Nov 26, 2008 - 13 38
This is probably not the response you want to read, so disregard it if you please.
I used to write up a theme as a part of my story prep until I took a creative writing class where the teacher said that it is totally unnecessary. Writing with a story and not a theme in mind will make it less likely to be preachy. What you believe will naturally become a part of your story in the way you create your characters and have them interact with each other and their environment. Instead of using a theme to contain your story, if you want to organize your plethora of material go back to plot structure, subplots, and characters and let them run the show.
On another note, your ideas on consciousness and reality are interesting but I am not smart enough to understand them.
edit: congratulations on winning!
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Nov 27, 2008 - 00 36
Hi
Your response is helpful.
Thank you
Aisling
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Nov 27, 2008 - 00 43
I'm not sure what exactly you're looking for, but perhaps the dissolving is related to "becoming"? Thoughts that come to mind are dissolving is "relating" on an intimate level to gain knowledge, wisdom. Just from what you've described above it seems the goal is wisdom. Dissolving could be the act of becoming the other (mystery, person, material or whatever) in order to relate to it on another level. In relating through the dissolving, the protagonist becomes and evolves into the wiser. Theme equals the basic lesson that you are trying to teach through your story. So your theme could be learning to dissolve in order to gain wisdom at the most basic level would this be the theme? A theme can be at the most basic good vs. evil or some such.
I would agree however that writing to a theme is difficult and likely to become stilted writing. It could be in the back of your mind and perhaps through revision you can find it helpful to point to it along the way.
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Nov 29, 2008 - 11 01
Dissolving related to becoming is fecund with much for me to muse on.
Thanks so much.
Aisling
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Dec 2, 2008 - 05 18
Perhaps a possible theme could be that the idea of change often inspires fear which makes us hesitate to accept it but that we need to embrace the idea of change as things will always change no matter how much we would like for them to stay the same.
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Moving to Plot Doctoring