What is the moral message of your novel?

LeilaniOtter

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*looks at her books, thinking*

Um, treat your lover with the utmost respect for maximum pleasure...?

Yes, that works. ?
 

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What is the moral message of your novel? Please explain in one sentence the core moral message of your novel and how it benefits for the readers
An author shouldn't random bullshit wish fulfillment novels and make it have plot at chapter 69.

Just Kidding. It's more of a loosely put together scientific hypothesis of 'Time is a dual identity, a wave and a particle'.
 

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If nothing we do matters in the end, then the choices we make along the way are the only things that matter.
 

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The main thesis of each story:

Wish-fulfilment and fantasy do not solve your problems.

Agency and its consequences are a tough responsibility in the face of suffering, but, in the end, they are a gift.
 

Anonjohn20

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I have a ton of unpublished garbage stories, I'll use an abbreviation for the titles and summarize the morals:
  • ABD: The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.
  • AKC: There is strength in community.
    ALC: Home is where the heart is.
  • APP: Not all forms of love are healthy.
  • ATS: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
  • AISS: True happiness comes from helping others.
  • BOD: The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.
  • FH: To accomplish what you want, risk and sacrifice are necessary.
  • LQ: Love comes in many forms.
  • PB: We are all subject to our past experiences and our preconceptions. (This story was inspired a bit by stuff like Sherlock Holmes).
  • PQI: The best time to accomplish something was yesterday; the second best time is today.
  • SS: The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb. (I seem to like this theme a lot).
I gotta laugh at my own answer because it makes the stories sound deep when it reality they only exist because I wanted to write smut.
 

AstreiaNyx

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I don’t write with the intention to teach or preach any personal moral message, but now stepping back, I do see a pattern in my books. I pushed my MCs off a cliff… yes, honestly. They’re all “chosen one” archetypes and I stripped them of their power, nobility, and forced them to work their way back up.

Maybe I’m just a sadist :blob_whistle_two:
 

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I haven't thought much about making a moral statement. :blob_hmm:
 

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I don't know about my current novel, but my two unpublished ones are "The joys of travel are not in the destination itself, but in the journey itself, seeing all the small details, and wonder and awe", and "Most harems are bad. Here's why".
 
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