Scene after scene, even after improving viscerals, strengthening interiority, and verifying emotional movement, there were still moments that felt…flat.

Subtext lives between what’s actually happening vs what the character thinks it means. Lisa Hall-Wilson shares the use of perception to create subtext.

Stretch your creativity to remain in deep Point Of View while using the backstory to enhance the story experience without boring or losing readers.

In deep point of view, the goal is to immerse the reader in the character’s lived experience of the story journey, living out this story in real time.

If you’re writing in deep point of view, backstory and worldview info dumps are easily avoided by asking yourself these 4 questions.