writing subtext in dialogue

We’ve previously looked at how to express story structure through dialogue, and in this article I’d like to draw on Hamlet for some techniques for writing subtext in dialogue. ☞ You might also want to pick up the dialogue worksheet and the good dialogue checklist.

give up the ghost

by Eva, in category Characters, Story Scholar

In How to Be the Heroine of Your Own Story we discuss ‘Stasis characters’; these are characters who are endemic to the hero’s Stasis state and who exert pressure (whether well-meaning or not) to keep them there. The ghost in Hamlet is an archetypal character of this kind. Here are some of the persuasive (or… Read More