thread: 2005-04-04 : Participant vs. Author?
On 2005-04-12, Vincent wrote:
Ah, yes! Yes exactly!
To create a theme, you take a dynamic moral situation and escalate it through crisis and climax to resolution to stability.
The relationship of stakes to theme is the relationship of conflict to story. What's this conflict about? its stakes. What's this story about? its theme. What's this story made of? its conflicts.
