So today I was looking back at a couple of the manuscripts I've written and realized that though I wrote them years apart, they both came from the same place thematically (MC dealing with death of a loved one as a primary emotional conflict) - though they're very different in direction, style and even genre. But it got me thinking. I think all of us, published and unpublished, have those themes we tend to come back to time after time in our writing, whether due to them just being of particular interest to us, or speaking to us on a personal level or stemming from something in our past...
So my question to everyone is, how often do you run across the same themes in your own work? Do you ever worry or feel derivative of your own work or redundant....even if you're not repeating characters or plot points, but just themes?
So my question to everyone is, how often do you run across the same themes in your own work? Do you ever worry or feel derivative of your own work or redundant....even if you're not repeating characters or plot points, but just themes?