For centuries, playwrights, novelists, and, more recently, screenwriters have defined a theme for their stories. A storyteller will define their theme, mainly, to keep them on track as they write their story. If a bit of dialogue or a certain scene does not support the theme, they cut it out of the story. The theme of Schindler’s List, for example, is that every human being has infinite value and should be saved. As the screenwriters wrote the screenplay, they had to filter every scene through that central idea. When a writer defines a theme, their story gets more meaningful and more clear. If
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