Theme is one of the most essential elements of a good
story. The David Rose series is driven by several, including time, antipathy,
immortality, hope and coming of age. Much of my other work, including my
literary suspense manuscript, Cucariva, mines more sobering terrain, building
perhaps more than anything on the notion of lost love, and the fight to find
salvation, and the will to go on.
I fancy myself a decent hand at the written
word, but even though I’ve penned countless thousands, endeavoring to capture
the essence of this struggle, I can find no better than these by one of the
greatest writers of all-time(after the protagonist loses the love of his life):
“He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this
moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless
enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had
no reason to believe that it would ever leave.”
Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
Poignant prose, and it resonates within me, wholly and
eternally, more deeply than I wish it would. But its great for theme, anyway,
and theme is great for story.
I look forward to updating you soon about mine.
What themes to you most like to write, or read?
Thanks as always for your support!
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