Showing posts with label situation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label situation. Show all posts
Sunday, September 30, 2018

Setting: More Than Merely Time and Place

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman In horror stories, as in other types of fiction, setting may be, and often is, more than merely ti...
Sunday, June 10, 2018

Metaphorical Horror

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Although most of us have a healthy respect for significant incidents, we may dismiss what we see a...
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, January 31, 2011

Everlasting "Buffy"

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Although this post uses Buffy the Vampire Slayer to support its thesis, virtually any novel, tel...
Monday, June 7, 2010

Establishing Verisimilitude

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Imagine a woman sitting on her porch, reading a letter. Across a bed of bright petunias, she is being watc...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

Quick Tip: The Importance of Setting

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In “‘Closer Than an Eye’: The Interconnections of Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ,” Colin N. Manlove...
Sunday, December 27, 2009

Quick Tip: Writing the Short-Short Story

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman A short-short story is a narrative that is under 1,000 words in length, It is often made up of only a sing...