When creating a character, clearly there's a lot to decide – physical attributes, environmental influences, life history, past relationships, current objectives, flaws, weaknesses, strengths, and idiosyncrasies – but one of the most important aspects of your character, and one that you cannot dismiss, is his or her psychology: how she thinks and why she behaves the way she does. It's key to understand the major events in your character's past; however, that's all futile if you don't sort out how her life experience has affected her mind. Because let's face it. Real…

Subtext is what a character is really saying between the lines, and it is revealed by a character's actions and reactions.