A few days ago I upgraded to WordPress 2.1 and it promptly “broke” the blog theme that I had spent countless hours modifying from a beautiful design created by Patricia Mueller.  Thus this new, simpler look which I uploaded today. Perhaps it’s all for the better because now I can stop obsessing about my blog theme and get back to working out the theme for my novel.

Actually I tend to write with an eye toward an underlying theme of redemption. I don’t deliberately set out to do that; it just seems to develop that way when I begin creating my characters. Somehow each character’s “wound” requires some form of redemption.  Heaven help me not to analyze it! Any time I start analyzing what I’m writing or why I’m writing it…well, let’s just say that the work is soon abandoned. I never hear “why are you doing that?” as anything other than a demand for explanation and justification. LOL

For a helpful article on theme and premise, check out Vicki Hinze’s writers’ library. That woman is amazing!

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