my theme and me
As I was pondering on the real theme of Vega, I realized that the thing I sort of “prove” in the novel, it’s theme/morality is something that I disagree with.
That’s it.
“It is worth it to fool yourself in order to follow your dream.”
“The best you can ever do is be yourself, never more.”
“You have to live the life you were born into, nothing else.”
“If you can’t live as who you are, giving up is fine.”
Yea sure. If somebody said something like this to me, I’d respond rather violently. Or with a condescending sneer if he said something like that about himself.
But that’s the idea in my (revised and approaching-revision) stories. (Funny that I can’t really pinpoint the theme in the stories that haven’t been edited even if they’re finished.)
I’m thinking that maybe I need a theme that is at odds with my convictions and my philosophy as it is, basically because this way, the story keeps nagging at me throughout the editing process and after; I have a feeling that it makes people think (even if it’s just me) and thus that it’s worth reading.
The result is that I disagree with everything I’m writing while I’m writing it, and if there are ever antagonists, they support a philosophy much closer to my own.
