![]() ![]() ![]() Almost every character's path, and certainly that of my main character, Catherine, in some way deals with these concepts.įor love and loss, there is that famous quote from Lord Tennyson: “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” It is a statement that I think many of us accept easily, without giving much serious consideration. When I did finally stop to ponder the themes that had risen up through the story of Heartless , in which I attempt to tell the origin story of Alice in Wonderland's Queen of Hearts, two themes became apparent: the relationship between love and loss, and the question of destiny. ![]() But of course, you also want the story to resonate with readers on a deeper level, too, if at all possible, and that tends to be the work of the themes that are woven in between all that kissing and monster-slaying. My goal is to tell a story that will enthrall and entertain the reader first and foremost. ![]() Sometimes I don't stop to give serious consideration to the themes -the message, the moral, the underlying meaning- until I'm nearly done revising the work. Certainly it never comes into my thoughts in the first draft, and rarely even the second. As a writer, I rarely stop to think about the themes in my books until well into the writing process. ![]()
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