What's your opinion on starting a story after the action has taken place? And retelling it through your character's current predicament. Of...
Hi all, I recently became a student again and have a lot of free time all of a sudden, so I thought I'd get to crackin' on actually writing my...
hi. I'm doing some world building and not too sure how to continue with creating laws or commandments that citizens have to follow, if there are...
In my story, all beings on the planet (and most all outside of it) are essentially infected with extraterrestrial, mutualistic parasites called...
it's leans towards sci fi then anything but I've been thinking, is the novella i'm going to write even considered a "cosmic horror" story? it's...
Hi, have you got any tips for a horror that reads and comes across almost as a horror/survival pc game? (Or else is equally suggestive?) I for my...
Hi all - back to writing again after getting some hard to find inspiration. That inspiration came with the urging to write my character with a...
Back in the early - mid 90's I read a horror novel (what? I know, shocking). It was a big paperback, probably close to 500 pages (as most things I...
For the most part, I'm very difficult to scare, especially in terms of books and movies. Generally, whenever I'm expecting to be scared or...
It's been a while since I last posted so this may be under the wrong place but here goes... Basically I am looking for some lose feedback on a...
When it comes to description, I find that I'm at my weakest. I can write dialogue and action pretty well, but when I want to describe...
Hello all, I am Geoff Coates, I write under the name of Hugo Trevelian. Thanks for letting me join the forum, I am a fairly new starter to the...
I just recently decided to go into horror writing as a hobby, but I was thinking that it would be nice to have a cool pen name to write under. I...
Say what you will about Stephen King, the guy's a great author, but the few stories I've read of Shirley Jackson's that lady can take a simple...
I've had this story on the backburner for a while, mostly because I'm having a hard time pegging down this character. Its in the...
Hello everyone, This site is new to me but I am posting this in hopes of getting some help from you guys in regards to an ongoing long-form...
so i am writing a book since july and i would say it is definitly a crime thriller but also very psychological ..hmm what do you think?
So there's a point in my novel where all of Elias's (my MC) actions and inactions culminate to begin a slip and slide where he loses control of...
hiya, I basically write about my past experiences with mental health and hallucinations and horror stories, so yeah, not much to that really, I...
This collection contains all of my published short stories to date. It includes tales of science fiction, horror, mystery, suspense and...
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