Horror Month at The Writer's Chatroom - Open Topic Wednesday

Published: Wed, 10/04/17

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October is Horror Month 
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Horror is the dark basement where the only thing you can hear is the beating of your own heart. 

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On Horror
From Sunday's Chat
 
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October is Horror Month at The Writer's Chatroom.

On Sunday we looked head on into the eyes of horror and survived.

Some things to keep in mind if we are going to write horror include what makes a good horror story and things a writer can learn by observing someone else's horror story.

  • Good Horror means a Good Setting
  • Don't go overboard on Scares
  • Use Source Material to Find True Horror (Sometimes the scariest things in life are real)
  • Know the Strengths of your Character 
  • Create Underlying Themes in your Horror Story
  • Remember to Sustain your Tension
There are Five Elements of a Good Horror Story.
  1. Fear
  2. Surprise
  3. Suspense 
  4. Mystery 
  5. Spoilers 
Note – You can download my notes from tonight by logging into the Forum at writerschatroom.boards.net Once logged in – look for tonight’s horror topic, open the post and click on the file attachment at the end of the post.
 
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Loren Rhoads is our Celebrity Sunday Guest on October 8th
 
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Loren Rhoads is the author of 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die and Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel.  She blogs at CemeteryTravel.com and writes about cemeteries for the Horror Writers Association.  In her secret life, she writes fiction about space ships, succubi, and witches.  This year her short stories have appeared in Best New Horror #27 and the Strange California anthology.
 
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