FILL: Aged Halloween Treats? (4)
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writercisesoriginal posting: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 01:01:25 -0400
EXERCISE: When do you shiver?
Think back to the times when you have felt the hairs on the back of your neck rise, when the goosepimples threatened to become permanent, when your hindbrain was busily trying to get you to either run or fight, but don't stand still...
Pick one of those times, and think carefully about what it was that made it scary.
Then take this, and finish the story with fear...
The shadow in the alley seemed to move, and he stopped to peer more closely at the darkness. That's when he realized the shadow really was moving.
[of course, you could have a light moving in the alley, but somehow, that's not so spine-tingling as a shadow...]
tink
EXERCISE: When do you shiver?
Think back to the times when you have felt the hairs on the back of your neck rise, when the goosepimples threatened to become permanent, when your hindbrain was busily trying to get you to either run or fight, but don't stand still...
Pick one of those times, and think carefully about what it was that made it scary.
Then take this, and finish the story with fear...
The shadow in the alley seemed to move, and he stopped to peer more closely at the darkness. That's when he realized the shadow really was moving.
[of course, you could have a light moving in the alley, but somehow, that's not so spine-tingling as a shadow...]
tink
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