You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.

- Robert Wise



Theme, the bane of many a middle school student writing a paper on "The Old Man and the Sea." Okay, time to make theme work for us, Nano Writer! How's that? you ask? Come this ( way... )

Tomorrow, we'll look at how to spin today's theme into our story's premise. Until then Nano Writer, keep writing!