Welcome to the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast. I'm K M. Wyland and I am here to take you

deep with story theory, writing techniques, and the incredible wisdom of story.

I believe story is the greatest power on this earth,

and that as writers, we carry the torch of wielding that power

with responsibility, passion, and skill.

There is no such thing as just a story.

Today, it is my honor and my purpose

to help you write your best story,

astound the world, and maybe change your life.

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's writing video.

I am Kayam Wyland and I run the writing website

Helping Writers Become Authors.

So today I want to talk about theme

and I want to talk about it because I think this is a concept that there's a lot of

misunderstanding around. I wrote an entire book about it because of this reason it's called

writing your story's theme. If you're interested interested in that as always there'll be more

resources down below. So I want to talk about theme today because as I say I think it's something

that there's a lot of confusion around.

Specifically, I think when we think of theme,

we often think of, you know, maybe one letter,

you know, short phrase, aphorisms, kind of,

like maybe the theme of the story is love or maybe it's you know

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