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Horror/Scary: August 16, 2017 Issue [#8440]

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Horror/Scary


 This week: In the Great Outdoors ~ Wind
  Edited by: Kate - Writing & Reading Author IconMail Icon
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About This Newsletter

         Greetings, and welcome to this week's edition of the WDC Horror/Scary Newsletter.


The wind was a torrent of darkness
among the gusty trees.
Noyes - The Highwayman

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment.
There is no why.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


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Letter from the editor

What Blows In On The Wind?
Welcome to our exploration elemental

         "It was a dark and stormy night, and..."

         *Bullet*Tell me. What's it's like outside your home right now?
                   The weather?
                   The sounds?
                   The smells?
                   What would you see and feel if you stepped outside?
                   What scares you ~ the sound, smell, taste of the wind?
                   Will you (oops, your character) survive the elements?
                   Be challenged?
                   Encounter something out of the mundane?

         Elements that characters are not able to control, but encounter and must often battle to survive, escape, triumph against all odds (okay, cliche) are engaged in some of the most vivid works of horror. They add depth, reality to the terror felt by the participants in your writer's otherworld, drawing readers into the elemental essence that captures or pursues your characters.

         Consider the power of wind. It grasps, holds, fights, conceals and reveals horrors the characters (and our readers) must engage. Vivid words like, swirling winds, thundering rain, booming, pelting, pounding, pouring, chilling, deluge,etc. Get creative and give the storm near-sentient life with words like angry (angry clouds) or raging.

         *Bulletv*Wind-borne storms have power in their motion (limbs grasping hair, leaves attacking), scent (a hurricane bearing the scent of capsized fishing trowlers, decomposed leaves (or bodies)), sound (howling, screaming remnants), taste (brine, rotted apples), touch (pushing against survivors running from a tremblor of dessicated roses), and imagination (the breath of death). I'm sure you've some vivid images in your own mind's eye.

         We don't need to have survived a tornado, a hurricane, a cyclone, a nor-easter, for our character(s) to engage such. News stories provide vivid accounts of such storms for us, as writers, to have our characters (and readers) engage. Such encounters and engagements add depth to the horror as adversaries. Your characters (and readers) must engage and survive the encounter (or not).

         *Bulletb*Run from the tornado before its swirling maw decimates the road, siphoning the breath and life fromn fauna and mortal alike to regurgitate parts. Evade the press of the screaming hurricane blowing spears of decapitating broken glass.

         Feel the wind blow *Wind*, battle its strength, survive its presence. Yes, presence, its entity and energy. No less vital or sentient than the knife-wielding fiend or grasping cadaver.

         Survive the horror of this tangible reality - or not - it's your story. Then 'live' to share the tale with your readers.

Write On!
Kate
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Editor's Picks

Atmospheric engagement ~ can you feel it? Share the engagement with the writers ~ with a comment or review ~ and hang on tight *Wind*


 In The Wind Open in new Window. (E)
In the wind waits fate. I see it, I know it, and I find ways to express it.
#2107805 by Keaton Foster: Know My Hell! Author IconMail Icon


 Green Skies Open in new Window. (ASR)
Tension abounds as tornadoes threaten.
#2000501 by Somtymes Author IconMail Icon


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#2125744 by Not Available.


 January 4, 2016 Open in new Window. (E)
Wind blows through the trees, invoking an eerie feeling among the group.
#2070713 by GrandmaVicky Author IconMail Icon


What the Wind Knows Open in new Window. (13+)
Who knows better the lives of Man?
#1426740 by Robert 'BobCat' Author IconMail Icon


Apathy and Evil Open in new Window. (18+)
response to a prompt about wind and night
#2038502 by Lyn's a Witchy Woman Author IconMail Icon


 The Wind is His Messenger Open in new Window. (18+)
A poem I wrote about the wind.
#1823835 by elizjohn Author IconMail Icon


 
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The Skull Open in new Window. (13+)
Spooked by a skull and nasty ghosts...
#1338425 by Joy Author IconMail Icon


FORUM
SCREAMS!!! Open in new Window. (GC)
A Terrifying Contest Of Horror And Three Time Quill Award Winner!
#2020439 by Lilli 🧿 ☕ Author IconMail Icon


FORUM
Twisted Tales Contest Open in new Window. (13+)
A monthly contest for stories with a twist. Get 500 GPs for entering! Nov round open!
#1269187 by Arakun the twisted raccoon Author IconMail Icon








 
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         Thank you again for welcoming me to your virtual home Until we next meet, be safe and warm and dry, doors and windows closed against the winds; as the maddening gale seeks entry - or, if you're not really scared, take a walk.*Wind**Smirk2*

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