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: How To Make Something Straight-foward and Dark Into A Kid's Picture Book? Let me explain. My book is about a little boy directed by a "wolf" to burn his farm's sheep. Consequently,
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: I found a story I wrote as a little kid. Should I finish it? There was this story I was writing, when I was a little kid, that I found. I called it "Rage." I liked the story,
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: When writing science fiction or horror, how to prevent the villain from becoming less scary as they are fleshed out? I'm trying to write a horror short story about a shape-shifter, but I have
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: How to write a scene were a character is falling in darkness? Hello everyone I'm having issues on writing a scene about death. My character just died and I want to set a scene were she
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: When someone sees something frightening, how can I make it obvious without sounding cliche? I write a lot of horror, and I notice that my characters use "Oh my God!" when they're frightened
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: How do I imply the horror of transforming into a werewolf from another character's point of view I am very new to Stack Exchange. I want to ask a question I had on my mind for some time.
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: How do I introduce dark themes? My story involves a superhuman organization that aims to overthrow the main government, through any means necessary. This involves murder and some rather gruesome
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: How exactly can a writer write a horror story without making it so scary to the point where it's actually hard to read or watch? I've recently started getting into horror lately and trying
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: Thoroughly conveying my protagonist's thoughts and emotions I'm currently writing a story in which our protagonist is trapped in a labyrinth of sorts. The twist here is that she is the monster
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: Can monster/beasts be in a psychological horror I am working on a psychological horror with an extra element. Monsters, and I don’t mean ghosts. My characters will face suspicions, distrust,
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: What truly makes dark and morose storytelling effective? This is a fairly simple, straightforward question that I hope I can get an answer to. Where is the line of separation between an effectively
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: How can I emphasize the horror of a ritual without getting too overly graphic? A person is born with a certain amount of mana, which increases with age and peaks at a certain point. Individuals
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: Can disgust be a key component of horror? The feeling of disgust is often used in horrors, exspecially visual medias (where is arguably easier to shock the audience with great effect). Often
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: What is the structure of a paranormal horror story? Building on the definition of a Paranormal Story (as opposed to Dark Fantasy) described in the answers here: What are most common tropes of
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: Monsters of psychological horror According to Wikipedia, psychological horror is Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror and psychological fiction that relies on mental, emotional and psychological
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: How to write painful torture scenes without being over-the-top I'm trying to write torture scenes but I'm not really all that confident about it since I've never written anything like it before
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: How can I portray body horror and still be sensitive to people with disabilities? Building on my answer in Proven psychological or scientific means of scaring people?, I'm working on a universal
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: Setting The Correct Tone So, I've written a horror story and everybody says that it is indeed good but they also point out that while my premise is terrific, my narrative voice does not go
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: Proven psychological or scientific means of scaring people? I already feel right out of the gate that this is going to be a naive question, but I'm going to ask it anyway. I know that writing
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: Horror story in a hospital: how to unsettle the reader? I'm new and I hope to do this thing right, soo Hi! I'm willing to write a short story about a girl who wakes up in a hospital and
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: Best way to write chilling, short thriller/horror without getting gory in a natural setting? What are the tricks to writing short, chilling stories that don't resort to blood or cliched monsters,
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: Making an existential horror work without really showing it I have an idea for a story: My setting is reminiscent of some computer games, in that Player Characters (PCs) are essentially immortal
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: How do I write about monsters in the 21st Century? Hollywood and 20th Century Fox used to make movie monsters with organic slime and grotesque puppets, back when CGI was something unheard of
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: Mixing humour with horror in fiction I got into trouble last year for submitting an assignment (Masters in Creative Writing) that included a story that sprinkled elements of humour (think Despicable
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: I need a one-line description for a Christian horror novel I'm writing I need a one-liner description for the book I’m writing. There are three main characters, a brother and sister and a
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: How Many Tropes Are Allowed In a Short Story? I am trying to add some dramatic ‘zombie-virus’ suspense to a short-story about boy-meets-girl young love, which already has an unlikely (but
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: Explain something being written out I am working on a story where a character is witnessing something being written out but I don't know the correct way to write that. It will write out death
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: Am I describing a zombie? I introduced a young person (called Raven) who the main character was friends with in my story; Raven is an excellent student who the main character is also teaching
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: How to make the murder's identity less obvious, or make the obviousness not matter? I'm writing a short story following the first person perspective of the MC, who is a young, male writer of
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: I'm not sure where to start with writing a horror story I haven't written anything horror, but I have had scenes in my past stories that my friends have stated was 'creepy,' so I've decided
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: Is mixing cultures for the setting of a fantasy story frowned upon? I am writing a fantasy/steampunk/horror novel, and I'm wondering if mixing different cultures is frowned upon. Specifically,
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: Advice on writing horror? Can you guys give a novice writer some advice on how to write good, frightening horror? I'm think more short story than novel, but anything that can give readers the
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: How can I Avoid Being Frightened by the Horror Story I am Writing? Yes, I have to admit it. I don't like horror movies because (shocker) I find them scary. Unlike other people in my house,
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: How do i describe a vampire from the perspective of someone who has no idea what they are? The concept of my story is that i would rewrite the story of the first ever vampire in a medieval
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: What is the best way to set a dark tone to a story? I want to write a short horror story. What are the best ways to set a dark tone or mood to the story? Just in a short introduction,
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: How to make horror events more interesting in daytime In a book I'm writing at the moment I have created a world with a day and night cycle. I have created a veil of mystery over this madman
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: How to write about disgusting subjects? Context : I'm starting a story with supernatural creatures and trying to make it both gory and funny. Some creatures I use are really gross. For example,
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: Horror story for a game - how to create dread? I am trying to devise a short story for a 3d horror game. Here are my requirements: There must be no tangible people/creatures for the player
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: What stylometric pecularities are considered to be typical for stephen kings writing? I never read a book written by Stephen King, but i heard on many occasions about his style of writing being
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: How to write realistic injury scenes? I'm currently writing an apocalypse themed story. As with the territory, death and/or injuries happen. I'm wondering how other writers write these scenes
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