Making Your Fiction Memorable

When we write there is this part of us always doubting, always fearful, and often sarcastic. "You can't make it worth it," the thoughts may tell us. Or "All the work for no payment." Well, no promised payment. Fiction writing works out to be the career of some, and the dream of others. In making fiction memorable we have to forget these doubts; to push on; and try our best to make the themes resonant and the words powerful.

The doubts will always be there. Something is wrong if you don't have the doubts because it is human to doubt. We work on the theme because it is the foundation. We work on the story because that is what entertains. We work on our words because we want to be clear in what we do.

Making fiction memorable can work to battle the doubts. We do not have to remember every rule-some should be broken anyways-but we can do our best to make it something to remember. Following some of the rules will help us. We want to flesh out the theme as much as possible. If we do this the reader will be clear on where we are going; or at least an idea of what to expect. The story has to have the same resonance as the theme. We can work forever on our characters, but, there has to be an event, a signature moment that we can rest ourselves on. The words may come to us slow, but no middle is as hard as the beginning. Once we write out the first 100 words to a fiction story the only challenge is to build towards the ending and have a fitting climax.

If we are stumped pick up a book .This can be fruitful. We will see our writing does not look bad in comparing it to the books (unless we read F. Scott Fitzgerald); and we can find ideas upon which to write and continue.

If we are ever lost in trying to make the fiction memorable we can look to characters. They need to be fleshed out too. Connect the theme to the climax and the character. Consider adding characters to show off our powers of imagination.

So we write it all down and expect the glory. Fiction is less about glory and more about finding the drive within ourselves to makes something work. We can develop a character or theme all day, but one without the other is a grave mistake. Make it resonant, work on the words, and always make the piece something that will be hard to forget.