Messages and Morals

Snapshot is about child abuse and aftermath, to an extent.

Glass Dreams is about how people in relationships take care of each other.

Breakdown Alley and it's sequel, The Complex Kids, are both about family. Not the blood kind, but the kind that forms through love, trust, etc.

Think Positive is about HIV and [to a certain extent] protecting yourself from it.

After Supper is about death and caring for someone.

Trying to Be tackles 'trans' issues once more [I always get transexual and transgender mixed up, though I don't think William is either]. Also gay issues, sexual promiscuity in teenagers, and parental issues.

So Close it Burns is about a good thing getting ruined/destroyed.

Icarus and the Bird of Peace is about depression.

Blank Canvas tackles OCD and the hell it can force others to go through.

Pretend is about trying to protect yourself from getting hurt in a relationship.

Attempts is about how depression affects those around you.

After He Unlocked the Door is about betrayal, protection, lies, and love.

Conversations in Dreamworld is about unconditional love, protection, and depression.

If Today. has any morals, it's that overused one of living each day like it's your last.

And never to jump to conclusions.

Ending giveaway?

No one reads it anyway :XD

I'd measure the value of a book by how much you think about it after you finish reading. Putting forth a message is one way to go about it, but if it's really fucking funny, if the characters are so great, you know...there're other ways to do it.

A few of my stories have had morals that have come up within them that I didn't purposely incorporate.

The only one I have that I specifically wrote to relay a message, was Picture Perfect. It's about how someone can so perfectly happy with their life but then be suffering horribly inside. The main message I wanted to get across was that a person can fake being happy, when they're dying inside and that it's important people realise this, because there is always signs and eventually the person can and will break.

I finished a story called Clinical. It's not posted yet. I'm waiting for my beta to get back to me, but it will be posted. It's about abortion. I'm pro-choice. Staunchly pro-choice. But the story was just suppose to show a situation where a girl [I used myself] has inner demons and can't cope with getting pregnant. It was a simple decision in the story, but you're supposed to be able to read that it's an extremely complicated situation. It's supposed to show both sides of the issue, in a way, but it is a story, not a preaching session. [It's also a therapy fic.]

The message in Manic is simply a short education on Bipolar. It explains side effects and symptoms through the eyes of a lover.

To the Bones was written to educate about eating disorders with romanticizing them. I understand a majority of stories are romanticized to a point and I'm sure there was a minor bit of it in mine, but I tried to leave it raw while still being a pretty story. I knew from the beginning, before I wrote the first sentence, that Ryan would die. I wanted to scare people away from these diseases.

Infinity on a Rooftop was about everyone's desire to be infinite and to not be alone.

Finding Neverland is about what happens when we get too lost in our obsessions.

I'm Sorry was an apology and the meaning was simply that.

I doubt any of my stories have morals. Well, I guess you could say Iconic is like Everybody's Fool (the song), in a sense. They're both about how the popular usually have hidden secrets that they keep to stay popular. I guess.

All of my stories have the same basic moral/message which is to stay strong and keep on living even when you believe you can't but some of them have their own too.

I wonder as to whether my stories have a point but I don't really think they do.

druscilla; in oz.:

I finished a story called Clinical. It's not posted yet. I'm waiting for my beta to get back to me, but it will be posted. It's about abortion. I'm pro-choice. Staunchly pro-choice. But the story was just suppose to show a situation where a girl [I used myself] has inner demons and can't cope with getting pregnant. It was a simple decision in the story, but you're supposed to be able to read that it's an extremely complicated situation. It's supposed to show both sides of the issue, in a way, but it is a story, not a preaching session. [It's also a therapy fic.]

Sounds good.

Valo Ink.:

druscilla; in oz.:

I finished a story called Clinical. It's not posted yet. I'm waiting for my beta to get back to me, but it will be posted. It's about abortion. I'm pro-choice. Staunchly pro-choice. But the story was just suppose to show a situation where a girl [I used myself] has inner demons and can't cope with getting pregnant. It was a simple decision in the story, but you're supposed to be able to read that it's an extremely complicated situation. It's supposed to show both sides of the issue, in a way, but it is a story, not a preaching session. [It's also a therapy fic.]

Sounds good.

Actually, the story is posted now.
You can read it here.
:cute:

Heaven's Promise. Freedom is pretty much the main moral. Most of these characters fight for that right. It's hard when people view you as something beside humans. We don't think twice about what doesn't go on in our own backyard. And I've written this to show how things go in my mind over in Iran.

Neverland. Pretty much everyone knows the story, but I wanted the word "neverland" to represent more then just a place and more of an embodiment.

City Lights - Don't judge people by their looks, or their deeper flaws, because that person could be the greatest person you could ever meet. Otherwise known as 'don't judge a book by its cover'.

I think stories don't have to, because they are just that stories. However the ones that become big, the classics the stuff that is remembered are often the texts with morals and lessons/ opinions that are expressed in them. It has more of an impact on a reader I think if they can relate the story to themselves and the aspect that they usually relate is not the fact that both the reader and the central character has blonde hair, but that they both learned the same lesson or experienced the same hardships. That's what gives the text validity across generations, timelessness.

Oh and my story Life Ever Fasting deals with the effects of a shallow image centered society and the strong impact of losing love has. Whilst The Killing Lights displays how lack of love can effect someone emotionally to the point where they need something they will never get beceuase they become so desensitised to the pain that they don't know when they have what they need so they go about any means to get it.

... idk if any of that made sense to you. :shifty

It's not intentional, but I think the message behind Holding His Hand Like a Brand New Kite is that you can't help who you love, and you can't just make someone fall in love with you. Also that secrets will catch up to you.

You'll Always Be Forgotten this one is about the aftermath of a suicide. i wrote it in the perspective of the one having actually committed suicide. don't let suicide be your way out.

The Plague Of Popularity this was based off the song 'the plague of popularity' by gold mind squad and it's mostly about the cruelty of your peers as a teenager. the ruthless world of adolescence. know that every word you speak and every action you make is watched and noted.

Savior of Shattered Delicacy - This one is probably the one that most deals with morals, because it deals with suicide and how it's probably the stupidest answer to any problem out there.

Forever (Has Fallen) - I tried to say that you should love your family and friends as much as you can, because they could die any day. The message is given by the narrator's discovery of her mother's sudden death in a car accident.

Petals In The Wind - Yes it's a het romance story, but I tried to put some basic life morals in there. Near the end my OFC gets sick of hiding her relationship and lying to everyone she loves. It also deals with maturity. Like learning to let someone go, even when you love them, in order to save everything else he cares about, instead of putting your own desires first.

Importance: One White Line - It's basically telling you drugs are bad, look at the effects of them, how you can stop; centered around drugs is a shorter way of saying all that. You'll have to read to find out all that happens. :D

I Wear My Heart Under My Sleeve is about cutting. It's meant to show that cutting isn't this simple thing and that getting what you want doesn't fix it because it's a mental thing. It shows the beginning of a slow healing process.

Voice is about betrayal of trust.

Sick Day is about how issues in our childhood can force us to grow up too fast.

Little Boy Lost is about how someone can spin out of cntrol so quickly and in not-so-obvious ways they may be silently screaming for help, but nobody wants to acknowledge the problem, so they don't really listen.

Attempts is about being there for someone even when it hurts because you love them and it's the right thing to do.

My Mother Believed in Water Nymphs is about how the demons (and angels) of our past eventually catch up with us.

A Closet Full of Dresses is, quite simply, about figuring out who you are and being that person. I Am a Girl is about the same thing.

I Can Feel Your Love is about showing how something dark and "bad" and "scary" can actually be quite loving and intimate.

Winter to Spring is about how we can't change the past, that the present is all we have, and eventually time heals.

Voicemail is about how if something is meant to be it will be.

Realization Without Absolution is about how sometimes being in love is just as much about discovering yourself and trusting another person and not so much about you as a couple but you as you and him as him.

Scar Tissue didn't really have a moral, but it kind of had a cryptic message. It's about the effects of alcoholism, but there's a little bit about how things you wouldn't even realise could do that leading to it.

We Like To Pretend is talking about how much beauty dictates where and who we are in society, in a twisted way.