Showing posts with label reader. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reader. Show all posts
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Recommended Reading

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Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman     Ambrose Bierce: “ The Damned Thing ,” “ A Tough Tussle ” Bierce's ideas are original and intrigu...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Knowing Your Endgame

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman Flash fiction works well for horror. We have the word from both Edgar Allan Poe, who said that...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Blurb Plotting, Part 2

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman In my previous blog, using Dean Koontz’s What the Night Knows , I demonstrated how an analysis of pub...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Blurb Plotting

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman According to The Free Dictionary , a blurb is “a brief publicity notice, as on a book jacket.” Howe...
Monday, May 3, 2010

Generating, Heightening, and Maintaining Suspense

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman To create suspense, signal to the reader that something dire is about to happen. Use dramatic irony so tha...
Saturday, May 2, 2009

Horror As Allegory

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Why do we need allegories? Why, instead of beating around the bush, don’t we just come right out with what...
Saturday, January 10, 2009

Writers’ Considerations: Readers’ Likes and Dislikes

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman While it is true that a writer should not let his or her writing be determined solely by readers’ observa...
Friday, November 14, 2008

Literature: A Communal Ceremony

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman According to H. G. Wells, the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century wer...