TECH: What's Google got to say about horror?

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Original Posting 19 October 2008

It's been a while since I did a search for "writing horror" so let's see . . .

First link is to something about learning how to write a horror novel or horror story? http://horror.fictionfactor.com/ seems to have articles, market listings, and other useful stuff.

How about an article about writing horror? http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art27954.asp talks about the most important common fears, and proposes a scenario exercise. Let's see - a list of fears? How about these?

Dogs; Flying; Germs; Spiders; Public Crowded Spaces; Closed Confined Spaces; Bridges; Homeless Folk; Clowns; Terrorists; Isolation; Darkness; Loss; Deformity; Physical Pain.

Horror Writers Association? Right over here http://www.horror.org/ with a nice article at http://www.horror.org/writetips-vanbelkom.htm

A three-part series over here:
http://www.writing-world.com/sf/taylor1.shtml
http://www.writing-world.com/sf/taylor2.shtml
http://www.writing-world.com/sf/taylor3.shtml

And many more . . .

But, of course, the key is always simple.

WRITE!
tink

(hey, did you know we have a Halloween contest going on? Get those poems and stories written, and send them in to [address removed] ASAP -- or at least by Wednesday, Oct. 22! Make the ghosts jump, let the spiders bite, make us shiver :-)