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17.34: Developing Subtext

Writing Excuses

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How to Use Free and Direct Speech in a Book

How would you provide the right contextual clues to let a non southern audience understand what was, what was really going on? So this is where you have to use the the non the non spoken, the other pieces of dialogue. In thinking about the pie thing, ah, it occurred to me that the way the apples are described tells you whether or not they are pieapples or eaten apples. And it's the difference between the bag and the basket.

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