“A horror novel, like any story, is about a character or characters trying to achieve a goal based upon their individual wants and needs,” says Demchick. “If you let concept overwhelm character, you'll lose much of what makes horror as engaging as it can be.” ...
Before you get started with your debut horror novel, add some planning to your process to help prevent road bumps (writer’s block) and to keep your story straight. It is way too easy to get carried away when writing only to realize that the story has no thread or balance. You Need ...
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Writing the supernatural novel 来自 EBSCO 喜欢 0 阅读量: 21 作者: E Hand 摘要: Discusses how to write supernatural novels. Difference between supernatural fiction and horror fiction; Roots of supernatural fiction; Careful balance between scenes of the ordinary and the otherworldly....
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Or, even better, have smaller revelations across the entire novel, the epiphanies allowing your cast, crew or ka-tet to survive whatever ordeal is in front of them. CONCLUSION There is no magic formula for writing horror stories, but if you play around with the tools I’ve given you ...
Writing the supernatural novelDiscusses how to write supernatural novels. Difference between supernatural fiction and horror fiction; Roots of supernatural fiction; Careful balance between scenes of the ordinary and the otherworldly.Hand, ElizabethWriter...
but I would argue that we have been blessed with a glut of wonderful dark books and movies on motherhood, and they fall primarily into three groups— a mother’s fear of her own child, a child’s fear of their mother, and a mother’s horror at the changes hap...
I’d used the last clean plastic cup as an ashtray, so I drank Seagram’s 7 straight from the bottle instead of going to the kitchen for a new glass and risking contact with Randall. I dropped onto my bed, put my feet on the sill, and opened a horror novel to pass some time. Tw...
William Zinsser (b. October 7): “Writing is a craft not an art” & other quotes on writing Simon Cowell (b. October 7): “Ending the animal trade would leave more time to trap popstar wannabes.” Clive Barker (b. October 5th): “Horror is the wild-dog genre” & other quotes on...