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Peter Gilboy

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Peter Gilboy is the author of 2017 thriller - The American Pearl. He is also the author of The Girl on Mill Street, Madeleine’s Kiss, and Operation Fantasy Plan

He has been a ditch digger, bartender, truck driver, short order cook, soldier & intelligence operative, teacher and academic. He has been in jail only once. Peter almost always takes his meds.

Peter lives in upstate New York with his dog, Dollar.

You can find out more about Peter and his upcoming books at http://www.PeterGilboy.com.

See also http://www.TheAmericanPearl.com/

He can be contacted at Hello@PeterGilboy.com.
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Peter Gilboy Understand subtext. That's the meaning BEHIND what is said. In real life we are almost always speaking indirectly. We may not say, "I don't like you,"…moreUnderstand subtext. That's the meaning BEHIND what is said. In real life we are almost always speaking indirectly. We may not say, "I don't like you," but rather, "You again?"

How about this: "What did you do to your hair?"

If a guy at work asks a woman out to dinner and she says, "Only if we go Dutch," what is she really saying.

Subtext is the 3rd Dimension in writing. I had a writing teacher who once told me, "If your characters are saying what they mean, your story is shit."

Example: In the film, Maria's Lovers, it opens with a young man in uniform and with a duffel bag getting off a train and trudging up the coal town hill to his shabby home. He opens the door. His father is sitting there at the table.

Father: I thought you were dead.
Son: I was in a POW camp.
Father: Why didn't you escape?

No need for flashbacks to all the times the son dropped the ball, or came home with bad grades, or disappointed the father in some way. We already know their relationship going back years. Done in 3 sentences.

That's Subtext.

How do we learn subtext? Sit in a coffee shop and listen to what people say. Listen at home, carefully. What do people say when they come in the door exasperated? "I'm exasperated?" Hardly ever. Listen for what they really say: "You won't believe what happened again." Or, "I'm ready for a drink."

Listen everywhere. Get the feel for real life speaking. Then our characters will be much more interesting, and real.

Writing in subtext also makes your readers ACTIVE as he or she discovers the meaning BEHIND your characters words.
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“Windham, but not often. There were no murders in anyone’s memory, no rapes or molestations or sudden disappearances. It’s a quiet town. Windham was perfect, we thought. Safe and sound, and that’s where Veronica and I would grow up. We moved there ten years ago. That was in April 2005. I was nine and my little sister Veronica was almost three. My dad, Dr. Simon Taylor, had made a bunch from the popularity of his book, and it was number four on the best-seller list and still holding fast. I’ll bet fifty thousand a month was tumbling in, and Dad had already signed a two million dollar advance on his next book.”
Peter Gilboy, Annie's Story

“Usually my best thoughts come when I’m walking alone, or in the shower, or as I’m falling asleep. I’m not the only one, because that’s when the conscious mind let’s go for a while, and we permit the unconscious pieces to come together; a math problem solved or some conflict worked out inside us; a recognition, a sudden comprehension from deep down.”
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“In matters of sexuality we are at present—every one of us—nothing but hypocrites. —Sigmund Freud IN”
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2016 Goodreads Ol...: Red #1 - Fiji 775 57 Nov 16, 2016 11:39PM  
“Windham, but not often. There were no murders in anyone’s memory, no rapes or molestations or sudden disappearances. It’s a quiet town. Windham was perfect, we thought. Safe and sound, and that’s where Veronica and I would grow up. We moved there ten years ago. That was in April 2005. I was nine and my little sister Veronica was almost three. My dad, Dr. Simon Taylor, had made a bunch from the popularity of his book, and it was number four on the best-seller list and still holding fast. I’ll bet fifty thousand a month was tumbling in, and Dad had already signed a two million dollar advance on his next book.”
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