Chillers and Thrillers
is a blog on the theory and practice of writing horror fiction.
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comedy
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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 28, 2019
Plotting Board, Part 8
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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman Although there are several patterns of plots, one is the three-part structure described by Aristotle...
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Horror vs. Humor: A Case in Point
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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullma “The Haunted House” episode of The Andy Griffith Show could easily have been a horror story rather than an...
Friday, August 15, 2008
Bentley Little’s "Collection"
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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman This is the second of two posts concerning Bentley Little’s anthology of short stories, The Collection (2...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Fill-in-the-Blanks (Don't panic! It's
not
a quiz!)
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copyright 2007 by Gary L. Pullman There are many ways to generate a plot idea and to develop it so that the action that flows from the idea...
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