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When writing a Horror story, one must begin with a Monster. The most terrifying of course, are the ones you don't notice, or refuse to notice. The ones right next to you. "The most dangerous werewolves are the ones that are hairy on the inside." -- A Company of Wolves Making a MONSTER Think, who are the people that walk right up to you every day – and you let them? • Your neighbors • Your co-workers • Your friends • Your lover • Your parents • Your siblings • Your children Now imagine if one of them was a man-slaughtering or even man-eating Monster? In reality, it happens all the tim

Hi everyone :D, Just wanted to share with you some tips I wrote up a few years back for my Fanfiction.net profile here. That I hope are useful for any who writes fanfiction, whether you have only just begun, been thinking of taking it up or have been doing it for years. These are merely my own thoughts on the matters covered below and not rules to follow ;). Be warned, I cover a fair bit in this post. So if you are looking for a quick read. then this likely isn't for you. Thanks everyone Blackmambauk Tips on fanfic writing One- This is one I still struggle at even today despite having written for about 6 years now, make sure you get s

Writing Emotions VISUALLY "What is ...VISUAL writing?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Visual writing is when the reader can SEE your story unfolding in their imaginations just like a movie.     * Non-visual: It was a dreary day.     * Visual: Icy rain slithered down the window glass from an iron gray sky. This is more commonly known as SHOWING vs. TELLING.     * Telling: It was a dreary day.     * Showing: Icy rain slithered down the window glass from an iron gray sky. "What's wrong with just...Telling them?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- The problem lays with Reader interpre

Writing Without Confusing Yourself (Or Your Readers) Writing is a very personal, individual undertaking. Everybody approaches the activity a bit differently from the next guy. Some people can come up with concept, plot, characters, and everything else and just sit down and write. Others need to take time to figure out what's going on; what's going to happen in the story, and how it all fits together. Others still will find themselves getting stuck somewhere along the middle, losing track of everything or changing an idea mid-way through, or never know how to end. These are the people for whom this has been put together. Those of you who can

Staring at a blank paper Is an artist's worst nightmare. The artist is the shaper, Their thoughts somewhere up in the air. They are searching for inspiration, Sometimes they are even searching the skies. It takes a lot of concentration, But you can always see the passion burning in their eyes. Being an artist does not always mean you're creative. It just means that you want to create something, And never want to give up.

For the longest time I have admired heroes. I imagined them to be people of change, people who would bring the world forward and take us to even greater heights. It was then however, that I realised the 'Human Obstacle'. Humans as I discovered, perhaps in the most painful of ways, are rather unintelligent beings. They are driven by their core instincts no matter how much they wish to deny it. And the only difference between one and the next is how deeply they let those instincts consume them. If you walk out into the streets, you can see the well-adjusted average man. Yet in his mind he is not considering the good he could do with his life,

REALITY CHECK! Writing for Profit It's Not just an Adventure - It's a JOB. Whoever told you that writing fiction for publication - for money - is supposed to be Artistic, Fun, or Easy -- LIED. Writing may look artistic, and creative writing certainly is artistic (that's why they call it Creative Writing,) but writing for a living; writing for publication with the intent to get paid on a regular basis is NOT artistic, it's NOT always fun, and it certainly is NOT easy. Writing for publication is WORK. Sure, some of it is fun, but the bulk of it is mind-bending, eye-straining work. Don't get me wrong, creativity is part of the job of writi

[This poem has been removed as it lacks the emotional and verbal depth to be a real poem. When submitting please remember that a real poet is an outcast and eccentric, with real emotional trauma, and lacking these qualities nothing the submitter writes can ever be considered a poem. If you wish to re-submit your work, please follow these guidelines:  -o-  Please remove all instances of self-depreciation and any words that clearly allude to pain. These are "emo" and therefore not real poetry.  -o-  Please do not write about love if under the age of twenty-one, as an adolescent obviously knows nothing about such an adult emotion.  -o-  

My dearest, darling Author: I enjoyed reading your book, I really did. But there were some things that simply got on my nerves. Your need to tell me absolutely everything, as if every tiny detail were just so integral to the plot, was supremely annoying. I do not need to know a character's hair and eye color when I first meet them, or every detail down to the style of his buttons when he walks into a scene; I do not necessarily need to know what his lunch was or that he went bowling with the guys last Saturday and has been in the league for five years. Take for instance that scene on the veranda, where the one protagonist stepped up to the

Writing a novel is different for everyone. However, here are some things to think about during the journey of writing your novel. STEP ONE - Prewriting What message do you want to send the world? It may sound like an obvious question, but the message of any literature can be very abstract or become lost in the literature. Keep the "message" or theme specific. Every event that occurs, every character added to the story, ask yourself whether or not it helps delivering the message you want to your readers. Characters Characters are vital to the book. You cannot have too many, nor too few. Choose characters that people can easily relate to.

One way to add excitement to your story is by adding lots of bad-guys, also known as EXTERNAL Conflict. Another way is by adding INTERNAL Conflict, more commonly known as Angst. I'm sure most of you have noticed by now that most movie characters, and far too many book characters, are One-Dimensional. They do stuff, but they don't face any personality issues: a hang-up, a fear, paranoia, a moral code, a love interest, a strong dislike… Or worse, they do have all these things, but they never really affect the story. There's a Plot Arc, things happen, but no Character Arc. The things that happen don't affect the characters emotionally. W