[ SECRET POST #4304 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4304 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Horror is very difficult for me to write. I feel like all my ideas have either A., already been done, or B., are too stupid in general. I'm kinda like Homer Simpson telling a ghost story: Me: ...and she hit him in the head with a golf club! Everyone:...okay? Me: Because he always played golf and it really bugged her when she was alive. Everyone: ...you never mentioned golf before. Me: Oh. Umm... Everyone: ...you neglected to mention that she was dead, too. So she's a ghost? Me: Well, shit. Let me get back to you on that.

[(Anonymous)]

TBH you'll never get better unless you just forge ahead.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but horror just isn't my forte. I'll leave it to writers who are actually talented at it.

[(Anonymous)]

They weren't born with that talent, though. They practiced and didn't give up.

[(Anonymous)]

DA If anon has other things they want to write about, what's the point?

[philstar22]

People should write what they want to write. No one has to write horror just because that's what you personally want.

[(Anonymous)]

Where did ayrt say anything about personally wanting people to write horror? They merely pointed out that the ability to write horror was a learned skill, which is absolutely true.

[philstar22]

Yes. They repeatedly said this after the person they were responding to made clear they don't want to write horror. Seems pretty forceful to me.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL :)

[(Anonymous)]

Good storytelling is rarely just about originality, though. Dumb ideas aren't necessarily an obstacle, either. It's all in the execution.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes but when it comes to horror, my execution stinks.

[(Anonymous)]

Well...your scenario was funny, but if that's how it goes when you write, the issues have nothing to do with horror. It's mostly to do structure and not setting up exposition properly, stuff that would be a problem no matter what genre the story was.

[silverr]

I have a feeling that most horror isn't "new" in terms of plot; in fact, in most horror stories I've read you know from the first line who's going to get it, and how, but that's beside the point. The art is in the execution.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. A lot of horror is about scenarios where you can guess what's going to happen... and you KNOW something bad's going to happen. It's the journey to get there that people enjoy.

[silverr]

Right -- the suspense of when more than what.

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, the execution can be hard as hell to pull off. It's difficult enough to maintain suspension of disbelief in slice-of-life; with horror you need to keep up an atmosphere of menace (and frankly, exhaustion) without succumbing to fridge logic, narm, or darkness-induced-audience-apathy. You also need an at least somewhat... overwhelmed? protagonist, and people really don't like underdogs as much as they think they do.