I remember listening to an interview by author Amy Bloom who wrote A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You and most recently Away, and she said that writers tend to have one underlying theme or subject in all their work (Hers are the many representations of Love). At first I didn't believe her, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized there was truth to that.
So I read through my own work to see if it had an underlying theme or subject. I realized that friendship tends to be an important part of everything I've written. Whether it's about friends growing apart, making new friends, respecting a friend's choices, or keeping a friendship alive. Since I didn't have many friends growing up, I understand the importance of having people who you like being with that you aren't related to. One thing I've always believed, especially as I got older was "Since you can't pick your family, choose your friends wisely" and the few I had, I did choose wisely.
Since I've been writing seriously, I've become especially interested in relationships of all types, from rivalry to romantic. But I always come back to friendship at some point, it's like a comfort food for me (Even when the friends in my story bicker until the cows come home, LOL
).So I was wondering if other writers had a certain underlying theme or subject in their writing.
