Showing posts with label description. Show all posts
Showing posts with label description. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

What Scares Me and, More Importantly, What Scares YOU?

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman The L ist Challenges website depicts “A List of 100 Common (And Not So Common) Fears. Maybe some of you...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

The Thrill of It All, Part 3

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman Writers are often encouraged to “show” rather than to “tell,” as if their novels and short stori...
Saturday, February 9, 2019

Scenic Posters

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman A common formula for many horror stories, whether written on the page or enacted on the soundstage...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Conveying Fear

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Horror posters are like the covers of horror novels, except the former's production quality ...
Friday, June 29, 2018

Dramatic Images

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Instead of writing descriptions, filmmakers project images. As Alfred Hitchcock points out, style con...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Projecting Yourself Into Your Setting

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman To make a setting real to his or her readers, a writer must make the place come alive, as it were, mak...
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

Developing Your Ability to Write Description

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Unlike scripts and screenplays, all short stories and novels depend upon their writer’s ability to write c...