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How hard was it to set the tone and environment for your horror/thriller?
It wasn’t terribly difficult but it was also a nightmare I had one night so I kind of just channeled my fear from the nightmare into the work hahaha It did take a lot of edits though and watching lots of crime shows and horror movies definitely helped! I also tried to keep it fairly realistic cuz I feel like there’s nothing scarier than something happening in real life
look…………….. write as much shitty fic as you want. nobody can stop you. you’re learning constantly and it’s better to write hackneyed implausible ridiculousness than it is to not write at all out of fear of fucking up. you’re good
Some of us are new, some of us are in a rough patch, but we all want to write, so here’s how to fall in love with it, for the first time or all over again.
Build a personal relationship with it. Make it a part of your lifestyle and your being. Start a journal or simply start writing something every day. It can be small, like a poem, a short journal entry, a description of what you did that day, a rant, a confession, anything you want. Just get used to depending on writing.
Turn everything you write into something beautiful, even if it’s your grocery list. Write in your nicest handwriting, write deep and interesting descriptions of everything around you, turn the world around you into poetry. It changes your mindset and that is one of the biggest parts of being a writer.
Involve the people you care about. Have your friends, partner, collegues, family, etc. read your work and help to encourage you. If your writing is not only a positive in yours, but your loved ones’ lives, it adds that extra bit of motivation as well.
Turn it into a routine. Make time every day to write and devote your attention to it. It’s important to let go of everything around you for even only a few minutes a day and enjoy yourself while you write. Do it for 10 minutes before you go to sleep, when you wake up, when you’re stuck in a cab, when you’re on the bus ride home, when you’re cooking dinner, etc.
Think of it as a hobby, and not a task on your to-do list. If you forget to write one day because of your busy schedule or because you’re just too tired, don’t be upset. It’s a hobby, and there is nothing really tying you to it except yourself, and you will always come first. Don’t force yourself to write when you don’t have it in you.
Make it a therapeutic experience. Light some candles, make some tea, get some chocolate, lay in bed with your laptop and your favorite record playing. If every time you write is a treat, then you’ll want to do it more.
Make writing your escape from the stresses of your life. Writing is a task in which you clear your mind and go somewhere else. It’s like reading, but you’re controlling what happens and when.
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MY CURRENT WORK IN PROGRESS (Check it out, it’s pretty cool. At least I think it is.)
person: oh you write? are you any good?
me: yeah I guess
also me: he furrowed his brow, his brow furrowed, brow furrowing, his brow knit together, a wrinkle creased his brow, his brow browed browingly, brow—
[flexes muscles] done with the lines
when I was 14 I worked in a grocery store and one day I got to bag Stephen King’s groceries and of course, being the little horror fiction nerd I am I was completely starstruck
I think he thought I was gonna ask for an autograph because I was not even lowkey staring I was full on moon-faced and bouncing and he kept looking over at me hesitantly like aw jeez kid fuck off
anyways I finally managed to squeak out that I was a huge fan and asked for advice on writing, “how do I write as well as you do?” in my horrible thick German accent and broken ass English and he gave me the best writing advice I have ever received
“shit kid, stop worrying about how other people do it and just write your story”
14 years later my wife and I nearly hit him with our car because he was jaywalking
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Lemony Snicket: Stop watching this show, it’s extremely unfortunate, depressing and has no happy ending.
Me: Don’t tell me what to do you beautiful poetic bitch.
Sofia. She/her. Writer, thinker, listener, trans woman, and supporter of the Oxford Comma.
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