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Today I resolve to stop fretting over coming back to the same themes in my work, over and over again. Because:
1) They didn't call that guy's stretch of art "The Blue Period" because he was experimenting wildly with different colors, and yet no one seems to hold it against him;
2) Repeating the same themes from several angles certainly hasn't stopped other people from getting published repeatedly;
2a) (And we're not even going into people who repeat the exact same plot each time, yes, David Eddings, I'm looking at you, but hey I read all your books when I was young so it's not like I held it against you then, right?)
3) If I keep working on the same themes and tricks and tropes and favorite ideas and images long enough, eventually I'll get them right.
1) They didn't call that guy's stretch of art "The Blue Period" because he was experimenting wildly with different colors, and yet no one seems to hold it against him;
2) Repeating the same themes from several angles certainly hasn't stopped other people from getting published repeatedly;
2a) (And we're not even going into people who repeat the exact same plot each time, yes, David Eddings, I'm looking at you, but hey I read all your books when I was young so it's not like I held it against you then, right?)
3) If I keep working on the same themes and tricks and tropes and favorite ideas and images long enough, eventually I'll get them right.