Comments on: Theme and Premise: What’s the difference? http://jeannevincent.com/blog/theme-and-premise-whats-the-difference/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:29:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Dorice http://jeannevincent.com/blog/theme-and-premise-whats-the-difference/#comment-15 Dorice Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:23:43 +0000 http://jeannevincent.com/blog/theme-and-premise-whats-the-difference/#comment-15 Hi, I read your article with interest and feel that you should post it wherever for your writing group. The article is very interesting and I was pleased to see that you looked it up in so many places. That must have taken lots of time. I don't think you had a blond moment--more like you wanted to prove the facts of the two words, theme and premise. How more might you have understood if you had tried to write a premise for each of your works. It might have taken the same amount of time and lead you to some sort of conclusion. For minor clarification (and I'm no expert) pick an important point, a happening, in a current novel, That point LEADS to something else. Wherever the first point led and the conclusion that your novel ended with (that is if you have an ending) becomes your premise. I have had to change mine several times. Hi,
I read your article with interest and feel that you should post it wherever for your writing group. The article is very interesting and I was pleased to see that you looked it up in so many places. That must have taken lots of time.

I don’t think you had a blond moment–more like you wanted to prove the facts of the two words, theme and premise. How more might you have understood if you had tried to write a premise for each of your works. It might have taken the same amount of time and lead you to some sort of conclusion.

For minor clarification (and I’m no expert) pick an important point, a happening, in a current novel, That point LEADS to something else. Wherever the first point led and the conclusion that your novel ended with (that is if you have an ending) becomes your premise. I have had to change mine several times.

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