Chillers and Thrillers
is a blog on the theory and practice of writing horror fiction.
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Rhetorical Principles and Methods
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Copyright by Gary L. Pullman Image by Nile from Pixabay Over the centuries, philosophers, especially rhetoricians, including Aristotle,...
Friday, August 12, 2022
Generating Plot Twists
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Copyright 2022 by Gary L. Pullman Plot twists, whether they occur at the beginning, the middle, or the end of a story and whether the narr...
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Hop-Frog: A Story of Reversals
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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman As a rule of thumb, a writer introduces his or her story’s protagonist before the antagonist makes an ...
Friday, March 11, 2022
The Problem-Solution Plot
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Copyright 2022 by Gary L. Pullman In some horror movies, the plot is structured by attempting to solve a problem to no avail. Such plots ...
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