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WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT
I've written a lot of newsletters over the years here at WDC. I've tried to educate, and lead by example. I've tried to make myself available to anyone for advice or critics and reviews. But sometimes I just don't know what to say to keep my newsletters fresh and 'to-the-point'. That being said, this month I've decided to let you read what 'well-known' authors have to say on the subject. Enjoy.
1. “So where do the ideas—the salable ideas—come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that separates the conscious from the unconscious.”
—Stephen King, “The Horror Writer Market and the Ten Bears,” November 1973, WD
2. “The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.”
—Walter Mosley
3. “I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I’ve inspired a few people one way or another.”
—Richard Matheson
4. “When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.”
—Daphne du Maurier
5. “When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.”
—R.L. Stine
6. “[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.”
—Clive Barker
7. “Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.”
—Edgar Allan Poe
8. “I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.”
—Shirley Jackson
9. “Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?”
—Tanith Lee
10. “I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That’s how I see it.”
—Lee Child
11. “I don’t think there is enough respect in general for the time it takes to write consistently good fiction. Too many people think they will master writing overnight, or that they are as good as they will ever be.”
—Tananarive Due
12. “What I love about the thriller form is that it makes you write a story. You can’t get lost in your own genius, which is a dangerous place for writers. You don’t want to ever get complacent. If a book starts going too well, I usually know there’s a problem. I need to struggle. I need that self-doubt. I need to think it’s not the best thing ever.”
—Harlan Coben, WD Interview, January 2011
13. “My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.”
—H.P. Lovecraft
Until next time,
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Osirantinous 
A way late response, I know, but I had to write to say that I actually felt sorry for the creature in the image. Normally that sort of thing would just make me curl up (or run away), but the expression seems so 'Why did this happen? Help me' that I rather felt sorry for it.
That's ok, you can feel sorry for the monster. Just look at Frankenstein's monster. We are immediately sympathetic to its plight.
LJPC - the tortoise 
Hi Bill! Weird noises always creep me out. I can't tell you how many times things have strangely dropped in the kitchen while my husband and I are in the living room. "Ghosties!" I always say to him. And in my writing room, there were always strange noises coming from a row of boxes along one wall. It took me about 3 years to figure out that sometimes the AC drips on them. Great NL! 
~ Laura
Thank god you have AC, ghosties or not.
drifter46
Long time no hear from you old Buddy.
You forgot one of the most obvious fears...the fear of disease or internal problems. That small yet ever present pain in one's chest that can't be explained. The rash that suddenly appears and isn't sexually connected or maybe it is? Those off and on nose bleeds that happen for no reason. I'm sure you get the idea. It's those little things that nag and poke at one for no good reason yet can't be explained. It's what lurks in one's mind that no one can get to or see but we all KNOW they're there.
With that said, I'll leave you with this. Sweet DREAMS...
Drift, old buddy, old pal, whatup, my friend? Yes, I've missed your keen insight into the depths of horror.
Than Pence 
The picture in the newsletter is disturbing. Ghost stories scare me plenty. I guess it's basically the idea of someone (something) appearing out of nowhere, or even just thinking that someone is silently and invisibly watching you. That could be stemmed from a guilt-laden mind 
The terrors described in the body of the newsletter are equally terrifying, especially since the initial culprit is described as a young teen. Chilling. Children that kill can also be scary. There's something about "Children of the Corn" that just leaves me feeling sickened more than anything. The idea that seemingly-innocent youths will turn and begin killing you is hard to come to terms with.
I agree, I've been scared ever since reading 'Lord of the Flies'.
neonpink1791
Greetings. I have a 12 chapter story. It could be Thriller. Or it could be horror. The lady things happen to gets frightened, and embarrassed. Though there are no monsters, I would call it horror.
Don't need no stinking monsters to scare the pants off of people. Send me the link to your story and I will give it a go.
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