Chillers and Thrillers

is a blog on the theory and practice of writing horror fiction.

Showing posts with label alien. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alien. Show all posts
Friday, March 11, 2022

The Problem-Solution Plot

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 Copyright 2022 by Gary L. Pullman In some horror movies, the plot is structured by attempting to solve a problem to no avail. Such plots ...
Saturday, October 16, 2021

Creating an Eerie Setting and Tone, Part II

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman   In the first part of this series , we considered this same topic. In this post, we take a look at it fr...
Monday, May 11, 2020

A Monster Scale

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman One way to energize a genre of fiction is to introduce into it a hierarchy, or some other type of...
Saturday, June 15, 2019

Modeling the Three-Act Plot Formula

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Plotting a story is often difficult for many (most?) writers. This post may make the job a bit easier. According to Aristotle...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Plotting Board

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman In this post, I offer a few tips on plotting, many of which are implied, if not directly stated in...
Sunday, January 13, 2019

A Monster Scale

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman, author of Good with a Gun One way to energize a genre of fiction is to introduce into it a hierarch...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

Horror Fiction: The Appeal of the Need for Sex

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman As we saw in the last post (the first in this series), Jib Fowles identifies 15 basic appeals us...
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