Themes - lots of them!
This week Zette's two-year novel class assignment at Forward Motion was about choosing a theme. My novel - tentatively titled Perfection - will have a theme of (what else?) ...perfection!I got enthusiastic about the theme writing and brainstorming project and spent the night writing themes for all the other novels I have planned for this year. Most of those novels are middle grade and young adult historical novels based in early California pioneer days. I've got a bunch of them planned for writing this year because they will all be rather short, of the proper saleable length (less than 50,000 words each). Some of the themes are life's unpredictability, trust, courage, friendship, work ethics and responsibility, racial prejudice, deception... and I think there's more, but you get the idea... they are on a lot of different subjects. Two of the novels are to be mysteries. The novels aren't meant to be a series - they're just a lot of ideas I've had over the years that I'd like to work on all at one time.
On Sunday I worked on a writing marathon and completed 5214 words in less than 24 hours. That was mostly done on my River Girl novel - a middle grade novel set in the Klamath River Valley in 1919. I've now got 10340 words done on that novel. A Curious Woman Wants to Know is coming right along too. I'm so close to the end and hope to get it finished sometime this week.
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