Mystery Thriller Week is an annual event that celebrates the Mystery, Thriller genre. Welcome to all writers, published or unpublished. MTW was Feb.12-19, 2017! That was last week, but we still have mystery authors to showcase.
Mystery Mondays is helping celebrate by hosting mystery writers leading up to this exciting week. Today we have C.J. Petterson, author of contemporary romance novels.
NOVEL THEMES by C.J. PETTERSON
How does an author come up with a theme for a novel? I usually look for something in the news, but that’s incredibly ominous and ugly right now. So, let’s go lighter. First, let’s agree that novels need a theme, a premise on which to hang the action and plot points. An overall theme continues as a thread through the novel. It lets a writer connect the dots of subplots to the main plot. One way to get a handle on finding your theme/premise might…
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Thanks, Viv!
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You’re very welcome, Kristina! @v@ ❤
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