Fiction Like White Elephants: Subtext in Your Stories
Let's talk about subtext, you know, that stuff that's hidden subtly in your stories even though it never really leaves a footprint.Dialog. How important is the stuff your characters don't say or avoid saying to each other in your work?Terrance Layhew: Creating subtext in conversation is necessary. It immediately gives an inner world to the characters and a larger world at play. What people avoid
Published on November 20, 2025 08:00
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Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action
This is the official writing blog of Sean Taylor. But it's not just a place to promote his stuff. It's a resource (he hopes) of information about writing and creating genre fiction, literary prose, co
This is the official writing blog of Sean Taylor. But it's not just a place to promote his stuff. It's a resource (he hopes) of information about writing and creating genre fiction, literary prose, comic books, and just about anything else you can create with pens, pencils, paper, or word-processing software and a printer. On this site, you'll be able to find publishers calling for submissions, tutorials about the craft of writing and editing, interviews with other writers, links to helpful and fascinating articles about the art, craft and business of writing and publishing, etc. -- and of course, yes, you'll also be able to keep up with whatever Sean has his writerly little paws involved in too.
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