Archive for September, 2011
Here’s the deal. You and me, we’re going to build a world. Out of scratch. This is tabula rasa, and by smashing our faces against the screen and leaving a gooey streak of blood and brain matter (aka “imagination grease”) we are going to birth a world out of zippity-zero-nada-nichts. From chaos comes order.
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In the meantime I figured I’d flip it and switch it and post a short interview I did with SFX Magazine regarding DOUBLE DEAD, which comes out in November. A small version of the image is in the post, but if you click it, you’ll embiggenate that sonofabitch. You’ll embiggen it reaaaal goood.
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B-Dub, though, he’s rapt. He’ll brighten when Big Bird comes on. He’ll talk to Abby the whatever-the-fuck-she-is. Fairy? She’s a fairy, right? Hell, soon as that new guy Murray shows up, B-Dub’s in. He’s invested. And then, of course, Elmo shows. Elmo. Fuuuuuckin’ Elmo.
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Everybody suffers under the yoke of self-doubt. Creatives especially. You really think that Neil Gaiman doesn’t find the gnomes of doubt nattering at his back? Or Stephen King? Or Steven Spielberg? Or Snooki? You mustn’t be seduced by the callous whispers of the doubting monster at your back.
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If the theme, then, is the writer’s thesis statement, then all elements of the story — character, plot, word choice, scene development, inclusion of the Devil Wombat — go toward proving that thesis. HEre, then, are 25 things that I happen to think about the subject of “theme” in storytelling.
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