Do you have any good book recommendations for learning how to write horror and science-fiction? Thanks for your help!
Not a book, but I recommend The Writer Dojo podcast (on Spotify and YouTube), by Steve Diamond and Larry Correa. Steve is a horror writer and Larry does lots of sci-fi, so I'm sure there's a lot of great tips you could get from them! https://m.youtube.com/c/WriterDojo
I mean, I think it would be remiss if someone didn't mention Stephen King's: On Writing: A memoir of the Craft. I don't know if it touches on writing horror specifically, but it is written by Stephen King.
I am reading it right now. It explains in details how he write but doesn’t give tips on how to write horror.
Notes on Writing Weird Fiction by H. P. Lovecraft Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft Learning to Write Horror From Edgar Allan Poe The ‘Uncanny’ by Sigmund Freud Click "Show More Pages" at the bottom to see parts II and III. How to Write a Horror Story: 7 Tips for Writing Horror @ Reedsy What Stephen King Can Teach You About Writing Great Horror
Read a lot, see what grabs you attention and try to find out why. Horror and Science Fiction are first quite different, and second, both are divided into many subgenres. First I guess try to improve your general writing - Plot, character, techniques, style... Find out your own voice, which sentences or chapters you feel happiest with, and then 'just' go ahead and do your own thing. On Horror, there is 'The Faculty of Horror' Podcast. Deals mostly with Films, but they analyse what's behind them. Among these films there are many based on books. I don't always agree with the girls, but they do make some pretty decent points often. They also provide you with (mostly high quality) sources for further read. And when not, it's food for thought. I don't write much Science Fiction, but as a reader I appreciate originality. I just don't want to read another book on just either Robots, AI, or a dystopian future after a pandemic...
