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Horror/Scary: November 07, 2018 Issue [#9212]




 This week: The Horrific Reality of Imagination
  Edited by: Kate - Writing & Reading Author IconMail Icon
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3. Letter from the Editor
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About This Newsletter

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

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Alan Poe


         Welcome to this week's Writing.Com Horror/Scary newsletter. We share the scare and explore the how of inciting horror in our characters, our readers, our-selves.


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Letter from the editor

Greetings, fellow scribes,

         Horror requires that we suspending disbelief, or make our character(s) and readers believe that something horrible is not only likely to happen, but that it will imminently occur, adds visceral depth to your story or verse and keeps your readers immersed in the horrific otherworld you weave.

         What do we as writers do when a story or poem has an element that requires a serious suspension of disbelief? How do we incorporate that element so that our readers buy into the premise and don't say, 'no way'?

         Consider for a moment that all storytelling, in some way or another, requires a suspension of disbelief. Writers must convince readers that the characters are real people, that the events are those that could happen, that the place where this story or poem occurs is a real place, and these events and these characters are apt to happen and to be in this place.

         How does one do that without an unusual element?

         *Burstg*The sleight of hand, as with a magician's trick, is in the details. We convince our readers that characters are real by giving them attributes typical of many people: They have features, appearance, mannerisms, attitudes, emotions, motivations, and goals, emotions we can all understand, and unique traits that single them out as individuals. Our characters are three-dimensions: they have characteristics physical, emotional, and spiritual. Then readers have things in common with the characters, and they can relate to them. These common bonds, related through details, help make your characters "real."

         *Burstr*We convince readers that events are real by using details, testing them for plausibility and testing the events to assure the reader that they are a natural outgrowth of preceding events as those events relate to these specific characters. For example, we don't end a scene in a locked crate and then find our character running across a field the next scene. The story is in the details. Weaving a world with events that are logical and believable for the reader.

         *Bursty*We convince readers the setting is real, the people are real, and the horror the characters encounter, whether known beforehand or merely 'anticipated', becomes for them also a visceral experience, if only until they must turn the next page or reach the next stanza. Tap into the rhythms of neighborhoods, communities, towns, cities, 'burbs, and give your readers a sense of reality, so when they encounter the horror, they will flinch big time.

         *Bursto*Having done this, when we introduce the horror, whether in a mundane or fantastical form, the readers will flinch! They will gasp and turn the page to see how to escape or deal with it in the world so vivid among characters with whom they can relate. By suspending disbelief, your readers enter your otherworld and care what happens, whether for good or naught.

         *Burstp*Imagine a place in time or space or in the mind where terror not only lurks, but reveals itself as a believable, real horror. Now breathe life into the image, make real the horror*scared*

Write On!
Kate
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Editor's Picks

Now, for some 'believable' tales of horror to read in the safety? of your writer's enclave. If you read them, let the authors know that you've entered their otherworld and felt the terror, perchance with a review*Smile*

 
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Bobo Open in new Window. (13+)
A poem about a ghostly clown.
#2172047 by Choconuts Roasting Author IconMail Icon


A Bedtime Story Open in new Window. (18+)
Sometimes our imagined fears can become unimagined
#1900166 by Angus Author IconMail Icon


 The Unimaginable! Open in new Window. (13+)
It's a story of how I became afraid; not knowing what occurred.
#2173774 by kiyesi Author IconMail Icon


 
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Hell's Front Door Open in new Window. (ASR)
Horror in a new surrounding..
#2173682 by sindbad Author IconMail Icon


 The story of Amborella Boyle Open in new Window. (13+)
Amborella Boyle goes into her parent's lab and finds something unexpected
#2173396 by D Author IconMail Icon


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The Butterfly Open in new Window. (E)
Metamorphosis
#2173074 by L.A. Grawitch Author IconMail Icon


 The Thing By The River Open in new Window. (13+)
The Thing By The River is evil.
#2173392 by Pat Author IconMail Icon


 
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The Whistler Open in new Window. (E)
My first ghost story. A little rough around the edges...
#2172675 by Ray Scrivener Author IconMail Icon

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Ask & Answer

         Thank you for sharing for a short while, the relative safety of your virtual home. Are we really safe; or is safety the illusion? Is it my imagination, or did I just see, from the corner of my eye, someone, or something, climbing through the kitchen window. There, turning the page, I can see it, inside this room

         Until we next meet, have fun weaving believable, visceral tales of horror

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