What is Theme?

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What is Theme?

Feb 09 2022 | 00:10:05

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What is theme? This is the first in our three-week series about what theme is and how to find this abstract bugger and even develop it in your own stories. And to start things off, we have to define theme. Turns out there are a lot of different takes on this bad boy, but for […]

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