Monsters:

At Life the Universe and Everything symposium, there was a panel on uses of symbolism in literature. In inaccuracies is the fault of the note taker.

Every book published should have a monster.
Some monsters may be human or nonhuman for example Hitler. Or someone playing loud music and it’s honestly.
Use monsters that match the environment. If there’s water around him, have gills. It should be a logical evolution from where they originally
There was a reference in the Journal of monks who talk about a monster. They did know what it was.
One historian didn’t know what was on the other side the mountain he would make something up. Such as Giants or people that lived without a head etc. He was famous for being in a good historian but made things up he didn’t know about.
We have an existing character, ask yourself how the situation be made worse.
For the author asked what scares me most and write about the things that scare you and your reader revealed relate to the story.
There are two ways of perspective. One can look out at a group of cannibals while another can see a target rich environment.
How to tailor your monsters to your audience. The horror monster has the ability to destroy everything the monster is the Hunter and consumer. Or in many SS stories the humans go monster hunting
Check out Orson Scott card’s fresh meat.
other books carrying comfort by Dan Simmons,
book, I am Reagan
Another book is called: the nothing – ever living story.
Cook your meal – book to the taste of your audience. Know what they want and expect
Cancellation may have horror elements but you do legend, the reapers from the firefly, TV show.
Kids section may have the head chopped off but usually authors will not have as many sensory details for younger audiences.
Comedy can make horror more palatable check out the book glorious bastards
The market zombie of night of the living dead shows
If monsters are totally alien there is no human sympathy. Is important to add human elements to your monsters for the audience to relate
Check out the book no name.
If you create a good enough world readers would be willing to suspend their disbelief.
Plot idea: words, someone leaves words floating around in the air and they become real such as leak causing piping issues of the school. A student might be terrorized and doesn’t dare move because they might be affected with the words surrounding the character
Plot idea: residue: monster expresses itself out by leaving remnants of itself. Maybe when touched by humans it may generate par their life force over into the growing monsters. Another way is that the monster sheds scales or skin patches and that creates more of itself but might even influence any humans that touch the skin flakes. Orbit is skin shedding it might be skin shedding of that exports the emotion of the person at the time that the skin which shed. Great having in the school