Showing posts with label allusion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label allusion. Show all posts
Sunday, July 12, 2020

Three Girls Walk into a Forest, and . . . .

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Girl Eaten by a Tree by Mark Ryden What strikes you about this picture? What is the first thing that draws your attention? ...
Friday, February 14, 2020

Learning from the Masters: Lawrence Block's Use of Metaphor as a Narrative Device

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman According to his website , Lawrence Block started his writing career writing “midcentury erotic...
Monday, July 16, 2018

"The Cone": Style, Sentence by Sentence

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman As I mentioned in “ H. G. Wells: The Art of 'The Cone ,' ” Wells is a master of style. H...
Saturday, January 2, 2010

Quick Tip: 12 Methods of Characterization

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman There are at least a dozen ways by which a writer can characterize his or her characters: Comment directly...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Quick Tip: Writing Means Reading

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman It seems self-evident that writers must be (not should be, but must, be) readers. Every writer worth his o...
Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Writing an Effective Title

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Ideally, like a movie tagline, an effective title should snare its reader’s attention, suggest the novel’s...
Sunday, April 12, 2009

Anaphoric Allusions

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Kenneth Burke No matter how we parse it, evil comes from but two sources (internal or exte...
Monday, October 13, 2008

The Rhetoric of Emotion

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In one of his novels, Mark Twain, at the outset, swears off the use of weather to indicate or symbolize ...