How to Create Positive Themes Despite Bittersweet Endings

Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author :

Last week, my latest Resident Writing Coach post at Writers Helping Writers brought up the potential for allowing unintended themes to appear in our story. Every cause-and-effect aspect of our story can create the possibility of our characters experiencing success or failure for the “wrong” subtextual reason, theme-wise.

For example, we might want to create a theme about our character’s internal strength leading to survival. But if our cha...