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gu6chan · 5 months

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Not to name any names but i think the day i truly understood the importance of having a connected "theme" in your work is when i read this person's story and it was all this angst and drama but felt so,,, disconnected and MEANINGLESS i came out feeling the most neutral-faced and "well wtf was that all about" i ever did and when i asked if they had written it with any "theme" in mind they were like "oh i let my work speak for itself, the readers can interpret it" that's a cool idea!!!!! IF you were a reader!!!! do you have an idea on what you're WRITING about though??????

#gu6chan's musings #tl;dr - I'm certainly not saying you HAVE to have a theme by your first draft ofc but by the time that shits published please have some....#intention behind all that????#otherwise it's just jangling sad events; characters; etc in front of another person's face saying 'ISNT THAT SOOOO SAD AND COOL AND AWESOME'#and ofc there's a risk of your theme NOT resonating with an audience and them going 'well it's all meaningless anyways'#but 'Leave the interpretation up to the audience' works a LOT better when they have a built intention they can make their interpretations #off in the first place!!!!#this convo recently popped into memory again and i figured I'd try putting it both into words #for myself but also maybe someone else might have had the same question #'themes are nice; but WHY are they so important???' question answered: saying all those events happened just cause you thought it would be #cool and nice could on SOME level even be a theme/intention in itself - 'shit happens without reasoning' but without the conscious effort to #ACKNOWLEDGE that or any theme at all and just having these things happen... for the sake of happening kinda will strike some readers as #pointless after a bit

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