Showing posts with label dialogue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dialogue. Show all posts
Friday, July 22, 2011

Learning from the Masters: M. Night Shyamalan

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman  One hates to beat a dead horse, but M. Night Shyamalan isn’t dead--not yet, not quite: people...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

Context and Conundrum

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Like all other types of fiction, the horror genre creates, maintains, and heightens suspense--in othe...
Saturday, June 19, 2010

The Grand Entrance

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Buffy Summers, the protagonist of the television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer , that bears her name, m...
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Monday, January 18, 2010

To Be Is To Be Perceived (And To Be Perceived Is To Be)

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In The Devil’s Dictionary , Ambrose Bierce defines “edible” as meaning “good to eat and wholesome to diges...
Monday, January 11, 2010

Quick Tip: Let Your Setting Suggest Your Characters

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman A middle school literature textbook presents three lines of dialogue between two characters, asking studen...
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...
Sunday, December 6, 2009

Eighteen Things I Learned By Watching BtVS

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Some of these points I’d already learned, but I was reminded of them by watching BtVS ; others were new le...
Sunday, May 31, 2009

Dialogue as Repartee

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman A little of it--more than a page or two--goes a long way, but a bit of it is engaging--dialogue as reparte...
Monday, April 6, 2009

Building Horror and Suspense Tobe Hooper’s Way, Part 2

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman In Eaten Alive at a Chainsaw Massacre: The Films of Tobe Hooper , John Kenneth Muir explains some of the n...
Thursday, April 2, 2009

Building Horror and Suspense Tobe Hooper’s Way

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman In Eaten Alive at a Chainsaw Massacre: The Films of Tobe Hooper , John Kenneth Muir explains some of the ...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Making a Scene

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman The scene is the building block of the short story, the novel, or the screenplay. It features one or more ...