Showing posts with label motivation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label motivation. Show all posts
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Secret Motivations

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 Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman Often, in horror stories and films, a secret, past or present, drives and directs protagonists'...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Plausible Motivations

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copyright 2007 by Gary L. Pullman In life, people sometimes do things for no reason, just for the hell of it. In fiction, however, char...
Saturday, September 3, 2011

The First Three Closing Paragraphs in “Gideon’s Sword”: A Study in Motivation

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman An earlier series of posts examined Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s use of opening chapter...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

From Story Idea to Story

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman A common question that aspiring writers ask the pros is "Where do you get your ideas?" Steph...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Redemption, Vengeance, Love, Hatred--Call It What You Will, It's Still Free Will

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Unlike animal behavior, human conduct is motivated (at times, at least). There is a reason for what...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Quick Tip: Monstrous Motivations

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman To start, let’s list a dozen horror stories and the antagonists, or monsters, which each of them features....
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...
Friday, January 9, 2009

The Fill-in-the-Blank Guide to Writing Fiction

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman   Creating Characters   1. Create the Character’s General Profile .  Creating a character is largely a m...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

Motivation as Explanation

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In earlier posts, we have considered the nature of evil as various horror writers have defined it. Some h...