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Making a story thematically rich

As a kid I always wondered why the stories I wrote felt flimsy and inconsequential. I had cool characters and fun plots, but they weren’t coming alive. It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that it was due to a lack of thematic richness.

A plot without themes is just a sequential list of events. It may as well be an actual bulleted summary…