What Lies Beneath: Adding Subtext To Your Story
In real life, people are not necessarily open and honest about their feelings, their intentions, or their actions. Sometimes they try to hide them, and sometimes, they honestly don’t know themselves.
In writing, it adds to a character, helping round them out from 2-dimensions into 3 if you can figure out how to add the sub-text.
Sub-text is how you manage a big reveal or plot twist at the end of your book and have readers go “Oh! Of course!” rather than feeling cheated or misled.
But how do you add subtext to your novel?