Showing posts with label Desperation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Desperation. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Expressions of Horror: Emotional Storylines

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Copyright 2012 by Gary L. Pullman In Danse Macabre , Stephen King admits, “If I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out.” These two...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Leftover Plots, Part V

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Plot Generator XY112G One way to come up with ideas for short stories and novels is to steal--I...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

What Sort of Man Reads "Playboy"

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman For half a century, Playboy magazine has defined its targeted audience in a page devoted to fashion and...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

The Protagonist as Leader

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman From the earliest days, since the time that the theory of the four humours was popular among ancient shri...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Plotting the Horror Story: Lessons from Poe, King, and Koontz

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman As I mentioned in my “‘The Philosophy of Composition’ and ‘The Red Room’”  article, Edgar Allan Poe ar...
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Saturday, February 13, 2010

Quick Tip: Vilifying Villains

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In popular fiction, including horror, it is to the writer’s advantage to make his or her villains despicab...
Tuesday, June 2, 2009

When the Center Does Not Hold

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the cent...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Presto! You Have a Plot!

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Copyright Gary L. Pullman   It’s fairly easy to plot a contemporary horror novel if you know the formula, which is also fairly simple--quit...
Saturday, November 8, 2008

It Is Necessary to Suffer To Be Beautiful. . . Or Believable. . . Or Interesting

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , once told the show’s star, Sarah Michelle Gellar, ...
Friday, April 11, 2008

Everyday Horrors: The Police

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In more innocent times, parents taught their children that the police were their friends. Cops were good g...
Saturday, December 22, 2007

The God of Desperation

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Copyright 2007 by Gary L. Pullman And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is...