By Nick Vernon Creative Writing Tips - It's no use coming up with a theme and not using it. Short stories are about a character or characters and about one situation or happening in those characters' lives. By concentrating on that one thing, our stories are focused. You will need to focus to maintain a level of intensity and sticking to the theme enables us to do that. Let me give you an example... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scenario One Let's say your story is about a young man (main character) who is being harassed (one situation) by the school bully (secondary character.) Let's place the setting in grade school. Now if we focus on that single happening and in our story say.... What started the bullying What the main character felt, confronted with this problem What the main character did to overcome this problem If the main character won or lost against the bully... Then we'll be focusing only on that incident which is what our story is about. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scenario Two Now if we took that situation further and in our story said that this character grew up and was bullied in high school and then later by a colleague... That will be listing three incidences, which will weaken our story because we are not focusing. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Remember a short story is short. We don't have too much leeway to develop too many things so we have to be selective with what we choose to concentrate on. Short stories work best when they span over a short period of time. Like in scenario one, this incident might span over a couple of days or a week, where in the second scenario, it spans over a number of years. The shorter the time span the more intense the story. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Your theme should begin at the beginning, run through the middle and conclude in the end. So let's put a theme to the first scenario... 'Strength Comes From Within And In The End Prevails.' How can I have this theme running throughout my story? Initially I will portray my main character as a weak individual. But I will excuse his weakness, by saying perhaps that... "He comes from a closely knit, loving family and initially doesn't know how to deal with such a conflict." As my story progresses, I will gradually show his inner strength and I will do this through incidences, which will show his maturity, like... o He helps out by caring for his younger siblings and contributes with the housework. And o I can show him cutting the neighbours' lawns or delivering newspapers before school to show that he contributes economically too. If I do this, my ending (when he wins against the bully) will be believable because I have developed his inner strength. My theme would have run its course. Is your theme running throughout the story?
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Alex Ovechkin's amazing regular-season rebound prompts same old playoff questions
Back to answering the same old questions about the playoffs. Can he score? Can he sacrifice? Can he be a complete player? Can he make the difference when it matters most? Can he lead the Washington Capitals to their first Stanley Cup?
His regular-season renaissance was remarkable. But by scoring 23 goals in his last 23 games and dragging the Capitals into the playoffs, all he did was put himself in a position where he needs to prove himself again.
Fair? No. The man has 30 goals and 59 points in 51 career playoff games -- incredible, Cup or no Cup.
Reality? Yes.
“It’s a total different season,” said Ovechkin on Wednesday before the Capitals’ opener against the New York Rangers. “I can’t compare regular year and the playoffs. We’ll see how it goes out there.”
There is a funny double standard in sports. We judge athletes based on how they perform as individuals. We also judge them as individuals based on how their team performs. It doesn’t just come from the media and the oversimplified analyses of us blowhards. It comes from the culture.
[Series overview: Rangers, Capitals skate into fourth playoff meeting in five years]
Ask players how Ovechkin should be judged. You’ll hear stuff like this:
“We need him to score,” said Caps forward Troy Brouwer. “We need him to produce points for us to be successful. But that shouldn’t be the determining factor whether he has a good or bad playoffs. Whether we win the Stanley Cup or not, that should be the determining factor.”
Ovechkin wouldn’t argue. In an interview before the 2010-11 season, he told Yahoo! Sports that he broke into the NHL with two dreams – to be the greatest player in the world and to win the Cup – and he couldn’t achieve one without the other.
“You have to win something to say, ‘Yeah, I’m the greatest player in the world,’ ” Ovechkin said then.
But can Ovechkin control whether the Capitals win the Cup? Of course not. And if he steps out of line and tries to win the Cup by himself, what would we say then?
“The only way you can win is with depth,” said Capitals defenseman Mike Green. “You’re not going to win with one player or two players. It’s the whole team. We’ll let Ovi be the limelight of it all, but there’s more to the team than just him.”
Ask Capitals coach Adam Oates how Ovechkin should be judged. You’ll hear nothing about the Cup.
“He’s obviously one of the focal points of our team,” said Oates, a Hall of Famer who never won the Cup himself. “He gets a lot of minutes. But I need him to play the same way we’ve been talking all year long, a complete team game.”
The knock on Ovechkin and the Capitals used to be that they were great in the regular season but didn’t have what it takes in the playoffs. Ovechkin put up points. The Caps put up points. They won all kinds of trophies, but never the Cup. They always flamed out early because they couldn’t play their run-and-gun style when the game tightened, because they couldn’t defend well enough, because they weren’t tough enough mentally.
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By Nick Vernon Creative Writing Tips - It's no use coming up with a theme and not using it. Short stories are about a character or characters and about one situation or happening in those characters' lives. By concentrating on that one thing, our stories are focused. You will need to focus to maintain a level of intensity and sticking to the theme enables us to do that. Let me give you an example... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scenario One Let's say your story is about a young man (main character) who is being harassed (one situation) by the school bully (secondary character.) Let's place the setting in grade school. Now if we focus on that single happening and in our story say.... What started the bullying What the main character felt, confronted with this problem What the main character did to overcome this problem If the main character won or lost against the bully... Then we'll be focusing only on that incident which is what our story is about. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scenario Two Now if we took that situation further and in our story said that this character grew up and was bullied in high school and then later by a colleague... That will be listing three incidences, which will weaken our story because we are not focusing. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Remember a short story is short. We don't have too much leeway to develop too many things so we have to be selective with what we choose to concentrate on. Short stories work best when they span over a short period of time. Like in scenario one, this incident might span over a couple of days or a week, where in the second scenario, it spans over a number of years. The shorter the time span the more intense the story. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Your theme should begin at the beginning, run through the middle and conclude in the end. So let's put a theme to the first scenario... 'Strength Comes From Within And In The End Prevails.' How can I have this theme running throughout my story? Initially I will portray my main character as a weak individual. But I will excuse his weakness, by saying perhaps that... "He comes from a closely knit, loving family and initially doesn't know how to deal with such a conflict." As my story progresses, I will gradually show his inner strength and I will do this through incidences, which will show his maturity, like... o He helps out by caring for his younger siblings and contributes with the housework. And o I can show him cutting the neighbours' lawns or delivering newspapers before school to show that he contributes economically too. If I do this, my ending (when he wins against the bully) will be believable because I have developed his inner strength. My theme would have run its course. Is your theme running throughout the story?
