NaNoWriMo Prepwork day 4: Themes
It’s like the place where everybody knows your name, every book benefits from having at least one good one. A theme isn’t usually on the forefront of the text, but there are generally trends in books– certain repetition and (un)said comparisons are almost always drawn in a well crafted book. National Novel Writing Month isn’t about a terribly well crafted book, but about a production of 50,000 words. Today consider themes. Start with the broad themes of fabulous cliches like “love conquers all” “blood is thicker than water” or whatever pops into your head. Come up with 5 broad cliches. Then think of a color theme you can try to work into the novel a little bit. Come up with 5 colors that you feel can be very representative of events, emotions, whatever. But colors as metaphors. That’s the plan. Have fun.