Themes: be a leader, not a lecturer. Here’s how

I’ve been editing a novel where the author dearly wanted to explore weighty themes. But they were suffocating the book. What do I mean by a theme? It’s a meaning, an ordering force, that shines out of the book’s content, bigger than just the story. Often writers consider the theme to be the most ‘serious’… Continue reading Themes: be a leader, not a lecturer. Here’s how