 Horror/Scary: November 23, 2016 Issue [#7984] |
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This week: Mislead Focus Edited by: Gaby  
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
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Creating the moment of suspense is all about choosing the right ingredients. You want to draw it out, distract the reader by something entirely different while staying on track with your point. It all depends on your choices, on the things you want your reader to expect and see, just to give them the opposite reaction.
Few days ago, I drove home late after making a delivery and kept an eye out for deer. Ever since hunting season began the animals have taken to highways and streets, leaving the woods. Almost an hour drive home and nothing. Relieved, I turned onto the road which leads to our house and as the car approached a turn the lights shone on something white and massive. First instinct told me it must be a deer, but in that split second at sixty miles an hour I reached the animal too quick and almost had a heart attack when I realized that it was a cow minding her own business, walking down the road. My heart stopped and began beating again only after I passed by the animal safely.
As you can see for two hours my mind had been focused on a particular animal and my eyes strained to catch a glimpse of it just to be scared out of my wits by an entirely different species. Sure, it was rather funny once I got home and thought about that cow, walking away from its herd, looking for greener pastures I guess. However, at that instant when it happened, seeing something huge and white and only a head of it until I got close enough, drew out an entirely different reaction.
Same must be done with writing as well to create that particular moment where the reader breaks into a sweat just by reading your words. Most important thing to remember? Your character is your reader and vice versa. They go hand in hand. If you put yourself in your character's shoes and feel the emotion they're supposed to feel, your reader will do the same.
'Til next time!
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