By Joanna Penn

I love our author community as people are positive, helpful and just lovely in general. The guest post today is from George Hamilton who has been particularly helpful to me with my US tax. George is the author of Secrets From The Dust, a novel of outback Australia.

**Note: there are spoilers to John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath in this post.

For me, theme is a theory which the writer has about human relations with each other, their environment, or internally with themselves, and the writer tries to convince the reader of the validity of the theory/theme in scenes which demonstrate it through the actions and interactions of the characters. The theme should not be obviously stated, with the reader feeling they participated in the process... More...