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Tom Vaughn

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"You can’t market subtext, man."

— Tom Vaughn  |  DZ-120: Subtext is Overrated!

2025

DZ-120: Subtext is Overrated!
How do character goals, tactics, and fears create subtext automatically?
DZ-120: Subtext is Overrated!
Listen if you're struggling to write subtext without it feeling forced
⏱ 1h 54m
Character · Theme · Scenes |1 Aug 2025
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Or, how focusing on good drama will result in good subtext.
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AIChas, Stu, and Tom dissect how character goals and the tactics characters deploy to achieve them--what they want and how they're trying to get it--create the scaffolding for everything else in a scene.


"It is either a tactic to get what they want or a tactic to avoid what they don’t want."

— Tom Vaughn  |  DZ-120: Subtext is Overrated!