WRITING
Text, Context, and Subtext
Separating the levels of storytelling
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11 min readJun 8, 2020
It may be tempting to think that a story is the words on the page. Clear, black on white. Of course, without those words, there would be no story. Words are what evocate the characters, the setting, the goals, the conflict. We wouldn’t be aware of anything if we couldn’t read or hear those words.