WOULD YOU WRITE HORROR? IWSG Post

 

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We are living in a horror movie.
The Russians are said to be deploying a Poseidon torpedo.
Fact is they may have already deposited one off our shores months ago

OCTOBER is horror month. 
It is popular to be scared then. After all, movies, shows, and months eventually end

Do you know what galvanized President Regan 

to work so hard for world peace? 

A TV movie.

I  have been finding it hard to write about 

fictional horror, 

feeling too much like Nero

fiddling while Rome burned.

Scientific studies indicate that those

who are not so empathic

can enjoy horror movies more

than those who feel more

negatively about those in torment.

What do you think?

Stephen King wrote:

"I think people do kind of gravitate towards horror stories when times are tough, and times are scary."

Are you finding writing

harder these days?

Thanks to Damyantii, I have this month's IWSG question:

My favorite genre?
Historical fantasy
I get to right certain wrongs that have galled me in my historical research.
Alfred Hitchcock's misogynistic cruelty on set after set, I was able to let my sociopathic former O.S.S. agent deal with him in my 
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I was able to spend nearly a year with my favorites, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and Nikola Tesla in 1895 Egypt
while doing my own rendition of THE MUMMY!
Like Damyanti, I make setting and its history an actual character in my novels.
Unlike Damyanti, my historical novels have not been optioned for the screen.
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(Although I did dream that Tatiana Maslany emailed me wanting to portray the female version of my blood courier in BLOOD WILL TELL! )
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