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Subtext–When Your Characters Don’t Say What They Mean, or Mean What They Say
There’s a concept I’ve mainly seen in screenwriting called “on the nose” dialogue. That’s dialogue in which there is no subtext, in which a character baldly says exactly what they’re feeling inside. What’s the problem with this? First, in the … Continue reading
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Tagged dialogue, on the nose, screenwriting, subtext, TANKBORN
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