What I Like to Write, What I Don't Like

January 5th, 2017

January 5th, 2017,

Horror/Scary

I haven't done a lot of Horror/Scary stories. But I have done quite a few. It all started three years ago with a Halloween story. Then the follwing year, maybe two years, later I did several for the Parallel Universe contest. This last year I entered several of the 'SCREAMS!!!' contests.

I'm more of a Scary type of writer than a Horror one. I have done a few true Horror ones. Just ask'SCREAMS!!!.' But most of mine have only been scary.

What I don't like in Horror is the Blood and guts type stories. When I was a teenager or young adult back in the Stone Age I liked them. But I haven't for about forty years. I know what you are going to say. You, as in I, have written a few in the last year. That is true. But most of them weren't pure horror. Only one or two were. And they were prompt related. I didn't say I couldn't or haven't done them. What I said is that I don't like them.

I also don't like vampires, werewolves, mummies, etc. type stories either. Like pure Horror, I used to love them. But I don't anymore. I do like the Action/Adventure movie ones like The Mummy, but not the others. And I don't like reading or writing them. I've never written one, and I doubt that I never will. Even if my life depended on it I wouldn't.