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Theme of the week: Find a direction for my short story...

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Here's Tess's blog post about the importance of objects in a short story because everything has a different meaning to different people, and we can show significance in the story by using specific objects and how the characters react to or think of the objects as ways to solidify the characters...

This is great, Tess! We talked about how it's important to make sure we use specific objects in our stories to give them realism and definition ("the creaky rocking chair" instead of "a chair") as if to prove that he narrator really was there and really does know exactly what was where. But to really "invade their privacy," as Mr. Allen would say, we can use specific objects to explore what meaning they have to a character. I'm so glad I found this... It should definitely help inspire a few words of the thousand I need.

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Leanne also pointed out something that affects short story characters: sight. She used Santa Claus as the example of people not believing something until they see it, also pointing out how young children who have not yet seen a reason to believe there is no Santa believe, even though they ALSO haven't seen Santa himself to prove his existence...

Leanne, I'm looking at a lot of posts as a way to try to gather things to keep in mind for my short story... And I really like what you've pointed out here... Often we can actually be blinded from the truth because of what we see with our eyes, and it often happens more as we get older. The perfect example of this is in "Cathedrals" but it can still apply to other situations. My short story character isn't blind, but maybe something could happen that would bring in this theme, because I really like it.