post number two

one
i think theme is fairly important in what you write. it helps to focus your writing so it's not all over the place. for me, it's important because it gives me something to relate back to when i get lost in my writing. a great piece of literature dosen't have to purposely express an idea, it can just be simple. sometimes it's nice when it does though because then you take something away from what you have read, something you can learn. which is usually nice. ideas come naturally in writing, you don't really have to be focusing on getting one out it kind of just comes through what you are saying. also, the reader may get ideas from what you have written without you even having expressed and idea or wanting to, if that makes any sense. the book "it's kind of a funny story" is a good example of this... it's about a boy who wants to commit suicide so he checks himself into the hospital. that may sound depressing but the book was actually uplifting (haha), it ended happily. i realted this book to my own life and took ideas about life away from it. wether the author meant to or not, he made me happy and at the end of the book really promoted thought and love for life in me.

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umm i think a theme i'd like convey in my play is love. not romantic love, just common love. like love for one another as people. i think love is one of the most, if not the most, important thing in life. i think people should give and receive it more freely. it is important to me because i think people, everyone included, she should act and function like a big happy family :]
seriously, the world as a whole would be a better environment to grow up and grow personally in.

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honestly, right when i read the question my mind though about like dinosaurs invading the earth or aliens flying down from space in spacecrafts as conflicts. which probably isn't what mr. miles is going for, i;m guessing. i have no idea what a good conflict would be... if my theme is love i suppose i could make the conflict be that everyone loves everyone else except for one person who loves everyone but is loved by noyone for some reason, or the opposite. that is not a good conflict though... maybe ill think about this and report my conflict later.