 Horror/Scary: August 16, 2017 Issue [#8440] |
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This week: In the Great Outdoors ~ Wind Edited by: Kate - Writing & Reading  
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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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What Blows In On The Wind?
Welcome to our exploration elemental
"It was a dark and stormy night, and..."
 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.
 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).
 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  , 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
Kate - Writing & Reading
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Atmospheric engagement ~ can you feel it? Share the engagement with the writers ~ with a comment or review ~ and hang on tight
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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.
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