 Horror/Scary: August 28, 2024 Issue [#12713] |
This week: The Voice Inside Edited by: W.D.Wilcox  
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 I would rather argue with an intelligent man than have a fool agree with me.
All I know is that I know nothing.
"The difference between a skeptic and a cynic is that, when confronted with something too good to be true, the skeptic says it isn't really true and the cynic says it isn't really good."
Always make sure you win all the arguments in your head and read about alternate universes with reasonable caution, the rest outside your head are debatable in terms of importance.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -Albert Einstein
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Voices
I started writing a little something and then just stopped. There are rules to writing like voices inside your head. Anyway, it went like this:
There's a man inside my head—a bad man. I can't remember how long he's been there, but it seems like a long time. He tells me things that most people don't even think about, evil things, disgusting and perverted. I don't want to do those things, but he makes me. Even when I was a kid he made me do stuff that sickened me.
Here's a good rule: Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip. Think of what you skip reading a novel: thick paragraphs of prose you can see have too many words in them. What the writer is doing, he’s writing, perpetrating hooptedoodle, perhaps taking another shot at describing the weather, or has gone into the character’s head, and the reader either knows what the guy’s thinking or doesn’t care. I’ll bet you don’t skip dialogue though. It's always the best part.
My most important rule is: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. It's like words getting in the way of what you want to say.
If I write in scenes and always from the point of view of a particular character — the one whose view best brings the scene to life — I’m able to concentrate on the voices of the characters telling you who they are and how they feel about what they see and what’s going on, and I’m always nowhere in sight.
W.D.Wilcox
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Beholden 
Great horror story this week - talk about being set up!
Thank you very much for including my story, Dreamer, among your Editor's Picks, by the way. As for writing a story where sweltering heat was the antagonist, I can think of one. It was called Air Conditioning, I think. |
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