Using Themes to Guide Worldbuilding
Themes help produce tight, interesting worlds.
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4 min readAug 14, 2020
Themes. You learn about them in school and how they tell you Important Things about the story you’re reading. Maybe several books share a theme, and they tell you Important Things about stuff like the human condition.
Themes don’t have to be big and important. And they certainly don’t have to teach…