Ten Tips for Writing Horror
Never let it be said that I never “gave back” to the genre. Here are ten tips for fledgling horror writers who want to see their work go far and be appreciated:
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Archive for the 'The Dark Art' Category
24 Jun
15 Jun
Status Report and Current Projects 6/15/08
For the past few weeks there haven’t been any of those “Writing Journal” posts listing what (and how much) I’ve been writing. The reason for that is that I haven’t been writing much of anything. I’ve been on the road for the last four weeks (Stamford, Baton Rouge, Chicago) and even this week will be spent partially in Oak Ridge, TN. This type of bullshit travel schedule isn’t very conducive to writing, and so I haven’t been doing anything beyond the bare-minimum required to keep “Court of the Abominatrix” on schedule: a measly 1500 words a week.
That’s hardly worth making a special blog post about, so I said to hell with that whole thing.
But there are a few things that need to be mentioned and/or explained:
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11 May
Writing Journal: 5/11/2008
My writing efforts for the previous week:
Sunday- In Deed – 1100
Monday – In Deed – 900
Tuesday – In Deed – 1000
Wednesday – – 0
Thursday – Court, In Deed – 1100
Friday – Court, In Deed – 1000
Saturday – Court – 500
5600 Total
800 Average
Kinda average, if a bit on the low side. Not complaining though; it’s better than zero.
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5 May
The Return of Weekly Updates!
Enough screwing around, it’s time to get serious again. So let it be known that I intend to return to WEEKLY new content… something that hasn’t been done in years.
(Don’t get excited, there’s a pretty big caveat at the end)
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4 May
Writing Journal: 5/4/2007
My writing efforts for the previous week:
Sunday: 1700
Monday: 1100
Tuesday 1000
Wednesday: 1000
Thursday: 1000
Friday: 2000
Saturday: 0
Total: 7800
Average: 1114.2
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5 Apr
Robbed Yet Again
Apparently the scriptwriters for Doctor Who must be Dark Icon fans; but you’d think they’d at least let me KNOW that they were gonna rip off one of my ideas for their season premier.
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20 Mar
Writing Journal: 3/16/2008
Just for laughs, here’s how much work I got done last week:
| 3/9/2008 | Sunday | Into Hell | 1100 |
| 3/10/2008 | Monday | Into Hell | 200 |
| 3/11/2008 | Tuesday | - | 0 |
| 3/12/2008 | Wednesday | - | 0 |
| 3/13/2008 | Thursday | - | 0 |
| 3/14/2008 | Friday | - | 0 |
| 3/15/2008 | Saturday | - | 0 |
| 1300 | Total | ||
| 185.7 | Average |
9 Mar
Writing Journal 3/9/2008
My writing efforts for the past week:
| 3/2/2008 | Sunday | Into Hell | 1200 |
| 3/3/2008 | Monday | Into Hell | 700 |
| 3/4/2008 | Tuesday | Into Hell | 600 |
| 3/5/2008 | Wednesday | Into Hell | 500 |
| 3/6/2008 | Thursday | Into Hell | 700 |
| 3/7/2008 | Friday | Into Hell | 600 |
| 3/8/2008 | Saturday | Into Hell | 1100 |
| 5400 | Total | ||
| 771 | Average |
2 Mar
Writing Journal: 3/2/2008
My writing efforts for the previous week:
| 2/24/2008 | Sunday | - | 0 |
| 2/25/2008 | Monday | Into Hell | 1000 |
| 2/26/2008 | Tuesday | Into Hell | 1000 |
| 2/27/2008 | Wednesday | Into Hell | 1000 |
| 2/28/2008 | Thursday | Into Hell | 900 |
| 2/29/2008 | Friday | - | |
| 3/1/2008 | Saturday | Into Hell | 1000 |
| 4900 | Total | ||
| 700 | Average |
17 Feb
Writing Journal: 2/17/2008
My writing efforts for the previous week:
| 2/10/2008 | Sunday | - | 0 |
| 2/11/2008 | Monday | - | 0 |
| 2/12/2008 | Tuesday | In Deed | 1000 |
| 2/13/2008 | Wednesday | In Deed | 500 |
| 2/14/2008 | Thursday | In Deed | 500 |
| 2/15/2008 | Friday | - | 0 |
| 2/16/2008 | Saturday | - | 0 |
| 2000 | Total | ||
| 285 | Average |