This week: Horror Needs Emotion Edited by: W.D.Wilcox  
More Newsletters By This Editor 
 
1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
7. Removal instructions
“Vampires, real vampires, didn't nibble on the necks of nubile young virgins. They tore people to pieces and sucked the blood out of the chunks. ”
-David Wellington, 99 Coffins
“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
-Charles Addams
"Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk."
-Robert Bloch
"The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…"
-Frederic Brown, Knock
"Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we’re opened, we’re red."
-Clive Barker
“Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film.”
-C.K.Webb
“Monsters are real, ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
-Stephen King
|
| ASIN: 0910355479 |
|
Amazon's Price: $ 13.99
|
|
Horror Needs Emotion
Horror is an emotion that is characterized by a physical response to the thought of a monster. A monster can be defined as any nonexistent (according to reigning scientific belief) being that is both threatening and impure (impurity can be created via category jamming, contagion, and/or disgust). The reader realizes that the monster is both threatening and impure, and learns how to react to the monster, via the reactions of the fictional human characters.
Don't just use the scares and the gore, but use heartfelt emotions just like writing in any genre.
Use all your senses rather than just what people can see. For example . . . .
Then the stench hit him. … It smelled like something rotting in an open grave. … Her eyes grew wide, staring at something behind him. She screamed.
Or how about the sense of touch . . . .
Something brushed his shoulder, and he bit back a shout. His body was electrified, sweat thick around his ankles and armpits and trickling down the ladder of his spine. The monster is going to get me.
Horror needs emotion. Use all the senses to make your reader feel it.
|
Have an opinion on what you've read here today? Then send the Editor feedback! Find an item that you think would be perfect for showcasing here? Submit it for consideration in the newsletter!
https://www.Writing.Com/go/nl_form
Don't forget to support our sponsor!
| ASIN: 0997970618 |
|
Amazon's Price: $ 14.99
|
|
DEAD LETTERS
W.P. Gerace 
Greetings W.D.,
I do hope you are doing well today my friend. Thank you for this newsletter. I struggle with this a lot. I will write strong for a bit a few weeks maybe a month then start thinking my stuff isn't good or second guessing which I do in other areas of my life to then I just stop. I have recently gone through that after leaving writing for some time I recently came back then these last few weeks I am starting to go through that thinking again. I think the trick with me is to believe in myself and just realize I got this. It is just hard for me to put that into action. I truly appreciate your newsletter. It helps tons. Have a beautiful blessed day my friend. :) :)
Yours Truly,
Bill G.
NaNoNette 
This newsletter spoke from my heart. I do feel as if I have fallen out of love with writing. Something new that I started last week and want to try for all of August is to have two days a week where I don't use any social media. Time at the computer should be spent on must-do tasks or writing. Last week, I ended up liking two of my older chapters after a long time of not even wanting to look at them. Positive changes help.
Sumojo 
Thank you so much for including my story, ‘Desecration,’ in this newsletter.
I appreciate the exposure.
Cheers Sue
Beholden 
Thank you very much for including my short story, The Swing, amongst your Editor's Picks.
|
| ASIN: 1542722411 |
|
Amazon's Price: $ 12.99
|
|
To stop receiving this newsletter, click here for your newsletter subscription list. Simply uncheck the box next to any newsletter(s) you wish to cancel and then click to "Submit Changes". You can edit your subscriptions at any time.
|
Horror/Scary: August 30, 2023 Issue [#12147]
View Portfolio
Visit Notebook
Send Gift Points
Awards
Badges
Send Email
Community Newsfeed
General Discussion
Sponsored Items
Book of Trinkets
Static Items
Books
Groups
Interactive Stories
Audio
Campfire Creatives
Community Notes
Crossword Puzzles
Documents
Folders
Images
In & Outs
Madlibs
Photo Albums
Polls
Product Reviews
Quizzes
Survey Forms
Web Pages
Word Searches
