Chillers and Thrillers
is a blog on the theory and practice of writing horror fiction.
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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 ...
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, June 5, 2010
Quick Tip: Remind the Reader
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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Most longer fiction occasionally pauses in the presentation of its action to summarize what has gone be...
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Creating and Maintaining Suspense
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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman After summarizing the plot of The Song of Roland , the editors of The Bedford Anthology of World Literatur...
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...
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