Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

What Scares Me and, More Importantly, What Scares YOU?

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman The L ist Challenges website depicts “A List of 100 Common (And Not So Common) Fears. Maybe some of you...
Saturday, October 16, 2021

Creating an Eerie Setting and Tone, Part II

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman   In the first part of this series , we considered this same topic. In this post, we take a look at it fr...
Thursday, October 24, 2019

What's in a Phrase?

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In a previous post, we considered how to use horror movie posters to generate plot ideas. In this post, we'll take a look at using com...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

Plotting by Poster

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman In this post, I would like to suggest how movie posters can help to suggest plots. Before I get to ...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018

From Passion to Profit

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Often, the one-star reviews on Amazon are more informative than the other rankings. Those who wer...
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...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Edgar Allan Poe on Writing Short Stories That Sell

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Edgar Allan Poe described the nature of the fare in which readers of such publications as Th...