This is a goond thing, right? I'm not sure why- nothing has really happened yet... just the setting is creepy enough. *shiver* And it's not like I've never writted horror before. Hmm... maybe it's possessed? ;) Darn thing came roaring into my head like an express train.

Then congratulations are due! Even Stephen King says he writes about the things that scare him the most. If you can't sleep after writing, then neither will your audience after seeing.

Don't be afraid to let it all out. Don't censor yourself. Don't allow your fear to overtake your writing. Give it everything.

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"This is the Way the World Ends"
S1E1: "Crooked Sticks"

Heh, thanks. :)

I really need to go to bed, but this darn thing is just pouring from my brain. I want to get it down. :)

Hmm, I might have to sleep with the light on.

That's brilliant! Let it pour, let it pour, let it pour! Go with it. Gotta get it down while it's flowing.

I have been stumped getting started and only started my script today... so I'm a bit behind. But think I am on the right track at last.

Good luck... er... or should that be break a nib?

Thanks. I'm the same- I've just started this (as you can see.)

Break a nib- I like that! :)

SF 2008: No God at Dawn- Goal 150p
2007: Carve Sorrows into Skin 75432
SF 2007: Flee the Coming Dark: 20021
2006: Destination Unknown: 65535
2005: Through Darkness to Light 52321

Anything yet?

I can't boast the same frightful insomnia, though I did get a feeling of "this is coming out a lot more intense and powerful than I expected" when working on the second episode of mine.

I have trouble figuring out the intensity of what I write these days because I don't usually feel it as much as my audience. I creep people out with stuff that I think is pretty mild.

But I gotta admit, every time I write a scene where I have to describe shadow people, I get creeped out. And I always get inspired in the wee hours, which just makes it worse.

2008: (ScriptFrenzy) Off Season

2007: Confederation (*so* won)

2007: (ScriptFrenzy) Serpentine (won)

2006: The Definition of a Madman (won)

2005: The Mighty Quinn (won)

I go through that....
I feel guilty in writing this stuff, "What is wrong with me? Why do I come up with this stuff?"

So then I start trying to make my story more clean cut, but then, I ask myself, is that horrifying?

For example, the "creepy guy" just gets off the bus at night and follows the female main character...sure, that's creepy

as opposed to- the female gets off the bus to escape the creep, then the bus stops and we see the bus driver's lifeless hand drop out the front as we now realize that the "creep" is much more terrifying, he has killed someone....and then steps out the back door and begins to chase the helpless lead female...

...MORE terrifying, scarier, because we have now seen that this person is terrifying and dangerous, not just creepy...this is where the drama comes from- the level of drama is equal to the level of peril your lead character is in...therefore, with horror, the amount of drama you get from the story also depends upon the level of danger/creepiness posed by the monster/villian

There are many ways to make the villian scary without showing gore....I am opposed to gore, I wont ever write that....like many have said, it is always much scarier what the audience imagines than what you throw in their face - less is more (Jaws, for example)