Points to Ponder - Writing with Themes

Writing usually contains themes. Writing sometimes contains themes. Writing only contains themes because a reader places them there. Writers intend to put themes in their writing. Writers unintentionally put themes in their writing because they come through via human psyche.

Many of the above statements get tossed around the room repeatedly whenever writers or English majors congregate. As to which one is most correct, I cannot say.

The idea for this article is really just to try them all out. Try writing with a theme in mind; actively pursue to include the theme in your work. Try just writing about something and letting your mind do the theme-including for you.

You can never really know if writers intends to include a theme in their work unless you ask them, but in my experience there really isn't one way that's better than the rest.