What themes do you often use in your novels?

[Kunoichi Aiko]

I found that in my novels, I often use the themes of emotional anguish - and this often leads to an increase in wisdom in the characters, or it is a required characteristic in order for the story to progress. Emotion, human relationships, morality, philosophical questions and ethical dilemmas.

Another reoccurring theme in my stories that I unconsciously use is alienation - my main characters tend to be detached from wider society and is very self focused. It is a purely selfish view of the world around them that is often portrayed in my writing, most likely because that is how I am personally (I am often very detached from the world around me). The main characters also tend to be very curious and thoughtful in general. If there is more than one main character, they tend to be polar opposites.

I found that a lot of my writing has a very personal feel to them, almost autobiographical - even though its mostly written in third person.

What about you? What themes do you often use in your novels and what are your writings most reoccurring traits?

[I_Write_Ivre]

Ethics, children, justice, equality, and sometimes religion.

[drugs is ruckus]

Mental illness, drug abuse, and sexuality. We write what we know, I guess,

[terradi]

Redemption shows up a lot. Friendship and loyalty too. I like to write stories where the world may not be perfect, but the characters are actively striving to make things better.

I write a lot of vampire stories. The idea of agelessness and characters coming from different points in time is just really interesting to me.

[Your_NewLunarDoll]

The connection of man to nature, or the lack thereof. The unknown/the coming future and the psychosocial adjustment it requires. Racial or ethnic coming of age. Personal responsibility.

[the_weeping_dalek]

Alienation, darkness, strained family ties, and issues with authority figures. lol

[CheshireCat19]

Redemption, shame, literal or metaphorical katabasis, rebirth, the descent into insanity or depravity, unity, love.

[Kairi Nightingale]

War and the change it brings. I always seem to have that theme in all my stories. Makes great conflict.

Right, wrong, and grey areas of morality are things I like to play with too. More specifically, doing something extremely unethical for what they consider the greater good is a common trait among my antagonists.

[SebastiansLittleDoll]

Mental illness, issues with authority figures, death, questioning human morality, conflicting cultural values...

[Desi the fuzzy fluffhead]

I tend to write a lot about characters having to take responsibility for things they shouldn't have to. A lot of family stuff

My characters tend to be a** hats.

[t o l e k s z i]

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Well, blood, apparently. <-- did not intend on this being a 'theme' for my novel, but it's definitely a theme now.

The occult, mythologies, blending cultures, historical events, a** loads of symbolism and foreshadowing, adding philosophical undertones to innocent conversations, also ethical dilemmas, physical and mental handicaps, random inserts of comic relief. Also children and animals. I realize a lot of my characters are getting pets and that's probably a little unusual.


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[mercy petite]

i write poetry mainly but my few short stories tend to hinge on irony, adjusting to major life events and loss of something.

[Lady Nyx Moonlight]

I mostly dabble in the fantasy genre and throw in some complicated relations between characters. More than once I have killed off characters that emotionally were important to main characters so I guess that could be a theme in my writing. All in all, I love to work on the relationships between the characters and make the dymanic between them constantly changing by stirring it up with tension and differences in opinions.

[PrincessMegatron]

I find I generally write about really abnormal things happening to really normal people. We all have a sort of snow globe perspective of the world, but what happens when your problems are dwarfed or made insignificant by something really crazy? I know I'm a realist at heart, so I try to take it easy on the melodrama and go for tougher questions about what do you when it turns out the guy you just met is actually a government controlled robot? Or in a world where women are considered lesser beings, what happens when a man meets a woman who completely turns the world order on its head? I also like to keep in mind what George R.R. Martin does in his work; death is a part of life. Not that I like killing off characters, but I always sort of remind myself that happy endings are generally less likely and if I am going to write a happy ending (which I do, what can I say) it has to be balanced.

[garbage ghoul]

I probably don't convey it clearly enough since my writing is whack, but I tend to write about friendship, angst/emotional relapse, and revival. Or something. Also, although I'm just an ordinary person with ordinary struggles, I find a lot of my characters to be ordinary people thrust into abnormal or downright surreal situations where such struggles could range between mental stability to basic survival. Still working on exploring those latter themes.