Ten Tips for Writing Horror
While it might not be the most in-depth, insightful look at the writing process you'll see all day, these tips from In Darkness may at least be some of the funniest:
3) Profanity.
When confronted with unspeakable horror from the depths of time, the last words your character speaks before parting ways with his sanity will NOT be "Golly, that thing's gonna bite off my buttocks and swallow my gosh-darn soul!"
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9) Hope.
Characters need it. Readers need it. Give it to them. Then fill it with zombies and set it on fire.
10) Borderline insanity.
Not the characters… YOU. If you've never considered the idea that, at the very least, you might be "slightly disturbed"… pick another genre.
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