{"id":6822,"date":"2017-09-25T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=6822"},"modified":"2017-09-18T10:39:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T17:39:37","slug":"does-your-memoir-have-a-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/does-your-memoir-have-a-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Does your memoir have a theme?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should your memoir have a theme? Yes, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/brookewarner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brooke Warner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour memoir has an atmosphere, the air a reader breathes, and it\u2019s called theme. Its presence is felt in every scene, whether or not it\u2019s explicitly named by the author.\u201d \u2014Brooke Warner, \u201cBack to Port,\u201d The Writers, February 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf your theme is vague, such as transformation, try to articulate what initiated your transformation.\u201d \u00a0Warner gives the example of <em>Wild\u00a0<\/em> by Cheryl Strayed and <em>H Is for Hawk<\/em> by Helen Macdonald, both about transformation while working through grief.<\/p>\n<p>Find your theme and tell your story.<\/p>\n<p>Read Brooke&#8217;s guest blog post, here on The Write Spot Blog:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=2952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Keep Writing When No One Is Listening.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just Write!<a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Warner.Coaching-Writers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6824 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Warner.Coaching-Writers-293x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Warner.Coaching-Writers-293x300.png 293w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Warner.Coaching-Writers.png 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should your memoir have a theme? Yes, according to Brooke Warner. \u201cYour memoir has an atmosphere, the air a reader breathes, and it\u2019s called theme. Its presence is felt in every scene, whether or not it\u2019s explicitly named by the author.\u201d \u2014Brooke Warner, \u201cBack to Port,\u201d The Writers, February 2016 \u201cIf your theme is vague, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[674,1093,105],"class_list":["post-6822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-brooke-warner","tag-coaching-writers-to-publication","tag-just-write"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-1M2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6822"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6827,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822\/revisions\/6827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}