Writing horrible things:

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One of the panels at Life the Universe and Everything was on writing horrible things. Here are some of my notes. Any inaccuracies or misinformation in any of these notes is the fault of the note taker.

  • Book: nonfiction by Stephen King talks about why people like SF, F, and horror
  • Don’t open the door let the reader fill in the blanks of the monster
  • The greatest monsters are human.
  • You can have a sympathetic character and they make horrific choices.
  • Build a sense of inevitable that won’t stop till it completes its path.
  • Look for things that frighten you as an author.
  • One plot is of a person being transferred into the body of someone who was a child but the adult in mind. That bad person uses the body of the innocence to use for their own maliciousness goal.
  • Don’t glorify the act and villains get stopped. Show the price of crime to deter copycats.

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