Lesson 6 · Marcus
Subtext and Silence
What you do not say is as important as what you say. Subtext — the meaning beneath the words — is where the most powerful communication happens. When someone says "I'm fine" and you know they are not fine, the real message is in the gap between the words and the truth. That gap is subtext.
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Marcus takes this apart properly inside Songmatter — the rest of the lesson, the exercise that goes with it, and a critic who reads what you write back.
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