7 Things Writers Should Know About Theme

• Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear you. 
When you’re afraid how others will react to your writing, you’ve allowed them to define you. Should you write only what others find acceptable, you’ve allowed them to control you. You’ve given their values a higher priority than your own tastes and standards. As you writer, you cannot care what others will think of you or your writing.

• Don’t burden us with a self-indulgent digression 

• Utilize milepost character to critique concepts

• Layer story’s imagery with symbolic meaning 

• Place Easter egg to reward careful readers 

• Include clever in-jokes by tuckerizing 

• Challenge yourself to write ‘dramables’ 

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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past 15 years, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the Storytelling 101 writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.

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