Showing posts with label simile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label simile. Show all posts
Saturday, October 16, 2021

The Exorcist: A Marriage of Spirit and Matter in the Style of William Peter Blatty

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman William Peter Blatty, the author of The Exorcist, has an eccentric style that is marked by his...
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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Fever Dream’s Opening Paragraphs (Chapters 1 through 20: Recap)

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman The opening paragraphs of Chapters 1 through 20 of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s Fever Dream ...
Saturday, August 6, 2011

Fever Dream’s Opening Paragraphs (Chapters 17 through 20)

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman The opening paragraph of Chapter 17 of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s Fever Dream locates the...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Fever Dream’s Opening Paragraphs (Chapters 14 through 16)

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman The fourteenth chapter of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s Fever Dream is the shortest so far. ...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

Fever Dream’s Opening Paragraphs (Chapters 11 through 13)

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman The eleventh chapter of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s Fever Dream \ introduces the reader to ...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Fever Dream’s Opening Paragraphs (Chapters 7 through 10)

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman The seventh chapter of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s Fever Dream places the reader (alongsid...
Sunday, July 3, 2011

Fever Dream’s Opening Paragraphs (Chapters 4 through 6)

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman The fourth chapter of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s Fever Dream does not begin with a tagline t...
Saturday, July 2, 2011

"Fever Dream": Opening Paragraphs (Chapters 1 through 3)

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s latest novel, Fever Dream , like most of their books, changes ...
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...
Monday, October 13, 2008

The Rhetoric of Emotion

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In one of his novels, Mark Twain, at the outset, swears off the use of weather to indicate or symbolize ...