Plot with a Meaning?

By FantasyorDeath · Feb 22, 2011 · ·
  1. So...I've recently gotten interested in stories with deep underlying intents about emotional things that everyone goes through - identity crisis, letting go of the past, things like that.
    I'm really interested in these kinds of secret meanings. :p I've just been randomly plotting a series of magic teen-targeted books with plots like this. I've been having a kinda writer's block lately, you see, ahaha. :redface:
    BUT I will start writing again.:)

Comments

  1. Pallas
    I think that most writing has some meaning it. Authors always infuse their stories with some experience, thought, inclinations that make it worth writing in the first place. Doing it well is another story however, good luck :)
  2. Chris Lindsay
    I don't want to get too post modernist here but meaning is one of the hardest things to pin down. Take clasic literature. Lord of the Flies, as I understand it, was a comment on the civilising force that is society (specifically British society). It was in a perverse way a celebration of "Rule Britania". As a high school teacher I'm fairly sure that my students would describe it as "Saint Trinians but boring, and with hard words in it". Conext is everything. If I read something 100 yers after it was written it will absolutely have a different meaning to me than the one intended by the author. Something written by a man will have a different meanign to a female reader. Just write stuff, the profundity will be supplied by the reader...
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