 Horror/Scary: April 06, 2011 Issue [#4321] |
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This week: Damaged Goods Edited by: W.D.Wilcox  
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DAMAGED GOODS
Damaged.
We are all damaged in one way or another.
Our hearts carry scars etched as deeply as if they'd been cut there with a knife.
Yeah, if we live long enough, we eventually become damaged.
Damaged goods.
We shroud our handicap behind a black veil, hiding our true selves. Being broken is not how we want to perceive ourselves, no, we must mask the truth. We long to be somebody else, yearn for it, and yet, in times of stress, or in a heated argument, the veil is temporarily lifted, and we become who we really are: wounded animals, damaged.
As writers we write about it: our characters are damaged too, broken in unforeseeable ways. They are not normal. No one really is. Our creations are people caught unawares outside in the storm, forever trying to find things to smile about, but always ending up drenched and crumpled.
But when the storm passes, and the wind dies down, we realize that what we have fashioned on paper was only made possible by the insufferable pain we have all learned to live with. And our horror stories have an almost evil power that our readers find terribly compelling. The content shocks, disgusts, and sickens them, yet they can not resist at looking at one more page, then one more, and then another.
Why?
It is as if we are wild animals that have come upon the guts and half-eaten flesh of one of our own kind. In a sense, we are reading a story about ourselves: a chronicle of a mind traveling from the borderlands of sanity into the nations of madness.
Our characters are greedy businessmen said to be polluting the world, so money-crazed that they don't give a damn if they kill every baby seal in existence, make patio furniture out of the last of the giant redwoods, poison children, and destroy the earth in pursuit of the almighty dollar. They are part of the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, the Libertarian Party, Jews, blacks, born-again Christians, liberals, conservatives, middle-aged white trucking-industry executives. Hollow, faraway people, shouting or lamenting like the voices of the damned wailing for surcease from the eternal suffering they have been made to withstand; muse-created spirits issuing from the ether above Life's séance table.
They are all damaged, just like us, because we created them, and we know exactly what makes them tick, and what hides behind the black veil.
Until next time,
billwilcox
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LJPC - the tortoise 
Comments:
Hi Bill!
You've done a spectacular job of explaining how to create urgency and then writing a perfect example of it. The action scene was great! You had me so hooked I wanted to read on. What happened next? Did the woman live? Did the candle light the room on fire?
-- Laura
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Great newsletter!! Always enjoy your scares.
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Brilliant newsletter. Loved the quotes about time you used, and the advice given about making time stretch into infinity in your writing.
Poignant and interesting.
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As many of my friends and mentors here at WdC have noticed from my costumicon or various signatures, I love the concept of time and eternity, or especially that 'everlasting moment' - whether it's one of love or terror - and all the opportunities for a writer therein. You captured that ideal perfectly in this NL, through others' words and your own. Forgive me for paraphrasing myself, but "Life has never been about time...it's just the easiest thing we have to blame for a life of moments we may live but never truly have." You're right in that wisdom does indeed come with age, I just wish that hammer wasn't so persistent at times. You're the best as always Bill.
~Drew
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Great advice, and engaging editorial, Bill! I think it is TIME someone applauds you on your efforts.
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