Showing posts with label style. Show all posts
Showing posts with label style. Show all posts
Sunday, July 29, 2018

Lawrence Block's Multi-tasking Style

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Lawrence Block has a straightforward style. His sentences are mostly active and declarative, ...
Monday, July 16, 2018

"The Cone": Style, Sentence by Sentence

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman As I mentioned in “ H. G. Wells: The Art of 'The Cone ,' ” Wells is a master of style. H...
Friday, June 15, 2018

Alfred Hitchcock on the Importance of Style in Cinematic Storytelling

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Often, horror Movies don't expect much from their audiences. Typically, there's nothi...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Writing Dramatic Scenes Using the Locomotion, or Motive Power, Technique

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Movies have a distinct advantage over novels. The former dramatize, or show, the incidents of the ...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Shirley Jackson: Horror as a Slice of Life

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman I am reading The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson, and, as I do so, I am struck, again ...
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Monday, December 28, 2009

Quick Tip: Writing Means Reading

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman It seems self-evident that writers must be (not should be, but must, be) readers. Every writer worth his o...
Sunday, April 12, 2009

Anaphoric Allusions

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Kenneth Burke No matter how we parse it, evil comes from but two sources (internal or exte...