I just started working on a horror short story. It's my first piece of work in the genre. Well, the whole atmosphere that I created was creeping me out, but I finally got to the point where if I wrote the next thing in my mind, I would be pretty scared. The fact that it's early morning and I'm home alone doesn't help any. I really wanted to finish it tonight, but I can't go on.... :) I was just wondering if any of y'all have experienced this before.
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Dec 5, 2007 - 04 45
Sounds like ya might have the beginnings of a really good story, if it scares you like that. Stephen King once wrote that he his own stories come out of his nightmares, and he gets scared of them sometimes. He writes the best subtle scary I have ever read! As for me, this was my first nano and my first horror attempt. That was pretty scary, but I hope that the story will be even scarier with proper editing!
----------@nnie
"Dum spiro spero" — while I breathe, I hope
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Dec 5, 2007 - 07 06
No...but I am looking forward to it.
----------Gerry
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Dec 5, 2007 - 11 50
lol, if I'm not scared by it I generally don't even write it down. You know it's good when you're too scared to go on.
Welcome to horror, where nightmares are welcomed.
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Dec 5, 2007 - 22 24
This is very true. My first ever attempt at a horror story took me a week to write, because I had to keep taking breaks to stop myself from getting terrified in my own home. The story was on 3000 words long, too. :)
I've used it as a benchmark for everything I've written since. Basically, when writing a scary scene if I don't get terrified to the point where I have to stop and do something else for a while, I don't consider it good horror.
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Dec 6, 2007 - 01 44
I'm just afraid that it won't be very scary and it was only me that found it frightening...if that was the case it would say that not only am I a bad writer, but also a coward..... :(
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Dec 6, 2007 - 10 39
*huggles*
don't worry about such things. Horror, like comedy and many other things, is subjective. What one person finds terrifying, another finds mildly dull. But if you're scared of it, then somebody else will be too.
Honestly I find myself laughing like mad at many 'classic horror' things. 9 out of 10 zombie movies I watch I pick up in the first place because zombie movies are the same as slapstick comedy to me. I find the vast majority of them funny. I'm so taken by the modern emo vampire that I find classic bloodbath vampires dull and flat.
But there are classic sci-fi movies that scare me badly. Aliens, classic sci-fi but I can't watch it. Howard the Duck (oh man I'm dating myself with that one) is scary, Event Horizon wonderful blend of horror and sci-fi.
remember, write for yourself. Tell the story that you want to tell, not the one that you think readers might want to read.
everything else after that is subjective.
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2006 - Dark System - Elios (Winner)
2007- Dark System - Corinth
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Dec 8, 2007 - 19 28
yes I have suprisingly lol!
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Dec 8, 2007 - 19 46
I was totally freaked out while I was writing "Chlorine & Bleach" (see topic). It was so creepy and so eerie that as I was writing it at night I would force myself to save it and go to bed.
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Dec 18, 2007 - 17 07
I got scared.... by my ideas. I dreamt about them and I woke up in a cold sweat. ;3 I felt pathetic.
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Yey for dry erase boards.
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Dec 19, 2007 - 10 43
Don't fell bad about it! Harness that creepy imagination and make your readers wake up in a cold sweat instead. It's the key to success!
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Jan 2, 2008 - 18 30
I get scared sometimes that the stuff that I write came out of my head.
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Jan 18, 2008 - 17 47
Yes... it's really frightening to suffer something like that... and even more when you somehow think that you like it... X.X
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Mrt 7, 2008 - 11 22
I'm writing two novels this year. The first of which I am currently writing during the month of March. I am findind myself in the place of my character. He has been through so much scary crap, that I find myself feeling sorry for him. I think that is what scares me most.
----------"Imagination Is More Important than Knowledge." -Albert Einstein
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Mrt 29, 2008 - 18 32
I am in the process of writing one called The Drain. Um yea. It scares even me. I am going to be changing it up though. It started out in first person and I don't think I am having a good time with it. But it could just be because I haven't gotten much feedback on it. I should probably think about posting what I have here. LOL ;)
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Kristy
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Apr 9, 2008 - 13 11
Mine have all been like that: I sit there and wonder how in the world this came out of MY brain.
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Jul 6, 2008 - 23 47
Yep. It's actually happened twice. First time: I was alone, it was late at night and I was writng a scene where a demon appears. Bad idea. I flipped out and rewrote the scene completely. I don't remember what made me freak out; maybe it was because I was alone?
----------Second time: recently. I was reading a scene that I wrote a while back. I never remembered it being so...eerie. Once again it was late, so that may have contributed to the scare. Long story short: I skipped over the scene and read the next chapter.
"Everything has a color. Except water. It's clear."-My eight year-old cousin.
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Jul 8, 2008 - 19 06
Yep. I'm writing a scene right now (well, not right now, but you know what I mean) where these two people are on an empty street and there is no noise whatsoever. They're heading to this desolate house where they are supposed to kill vampires. I have to stop. Right now. My stomach got all queasy and so I headed towards this board. xD It wasn't even the vampire thing that got me going. It was dark street and not a soul was present...
Anyway, I have to go back to it now and I'm just waiting for someone to get behind me and say something. I'm going to scream if someone does...
Oh my god. The Nightmare Before Christmas theme song just came on.
----------"If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking." - General George S. Patton, Jr.
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Jul 17, 2008 - 12 57
*sigh*
Nope I've never really scared myself. I don't know maybe it's just the planner in me, but it's hard to get scared when I already know what's going to happen. Now I have definitely disturbed myself by what I was putting on a page, but never really scared.
Pyre