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Finding Theme in Your Book: An Exercise in Searching for Repeating Patterns

Finding Theme in Your Book: An Exercise in Searching for Repeating Patterns

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Mary Carroll Moore
Oct 17, 2010
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After months of revising my novel-in-progress, I was still stumped as to its theme. My chapters hung together pretty well but the manuscript lacked that wonderful sense of wholeness that a theme-rich book delivers.

One evening I was reading a scene to my writers’ group. When I finished we talked about the characters, especially the main character, a sea…

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