Showing posts with label storyline. Show all posts
Showing posts with label storyline. Show all posts
Friday, September 23, 2011

"Terminal Freeze," Blow By Blow

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman I just finished reading Lincoln Child's novel, Terminal Freeze .  It's 320 pages long.  I ...
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...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

Bits & Pieces: Story One-Liners

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pulman No, I’m not endorsing USA Today . In fact, its political bent slants opposite of my own. However, I’...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Dust Jacket Plotting

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman If you’re like most people, you find plotting a novel difficult, even with such helps as those I have ide...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

"Alien Androids": Another Plot-generating Method

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Writers often say that plotting their stories is one of the most daunting challenges they face. In previou...
Sunday, March 7, 2010

How To Haunt A House, Part VII

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In the first installment of this series, I listed some of the films which feature haunted houses. In this ...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Discerning Meaning, or The Theme of the Story

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman One of the skills that we learn fairly early in our academic careers is how to spot the key idea of a pass...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

Quick Tip: For A Story To Be Suspenseful, It Is Necessary For Its Protagonist To Suffer

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In a comedy , the main character ends up better off at the end of the story than he or she was at its begi...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Syntactical Storylines

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman The adjectival subject verbed its object adverbially. (Example: The old man ate cake quickly.) The above s...