Groping for the next idea
Spending Day Two in that annoying space where you've got the start of an idea for the next story, but it won't come clear enough for you to start writing.
It's partly my own fault. See, here's the default template for a horror short story.
1. Here's a guy.
2. A bad thing happens to him.
I've written a number of those. I imagine most horror writers have, and there are many good stories that unfold just like that.
But I sometimes have the urge to write one that doesn't follow the template. And you make life harder for yourself when you try to go off that well-beaten path.
It's partly my own fault. See, here's the default template for a horror short story.
1. Here's a guy.
2. A bad thing happens to him.
I've written a number of those. I imagine most horror writers have, and there are many good stories that unfold just like that.
But I sometimes have the urge to write one that doesn't follow the template. And you make life harder for yourself when you try to go off that well-beaten path.
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