CRWR 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ira Glass, Lesson Learned, Ideo
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Take a look at your theme to find out. The theme is the main idea, the (cid:272)e(cid:374)tral (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)er(cid:374), the fo(cid:272)us of the stor(cid:455). Have a universal story, it needs to be personal to grab onto but if anyone can relate to it, it"s too ge(cid:374)eral a(cid:374)d thus, (cid:374)o o(cid:374)e (cid:449)ill (cid:271)e a(cid:271)le to relate to it. Ira glass (cid:448)ideo: follo(cid:449)i(cid:374)g stories (cid:455)ou like, that taste that (cid:455)ou de(cid:448)elop, it"s a good (cid:449)a(cid:455) to come up with ideas and then later as your progress and refine your skills, you will become a better writer. Plot is what happens to characters and how it happens, whereas theme is the portion of your story that reflect the human condition it"s the why of the stor(cid:455). You want to engage readers and lead them to make their own conclusions about the story rather than just give them the theme. Sometimes, even the author does not know what the theme of the piece is.
