Hellooooooo @differentnighttale ? Where Are You?????

hellooooooo @differentnighttale ? Where are you?????

Hi. I'm new to requesting.

How do you write horror, and how do you write it good nail biting and very unsettling type of horror.

Thank you @differentnighttale for the request! I was wondering if you had more specific asks since there are various different types of horror stories and various different ways of making something horrifying.

Again, I am very willing to give you advice on writing horror and I just want to ask you for more details so I can give you the best of what I have to offer :)

I finished the post called "How To Scare Your Readers"

p.s please tell me if it needs to be labelled as mature :)

I'm so scared that I might hurt someone by calling it "for everyone" since I did mention typical horror stuff like "murder" but I don't know if just saying "murder" is enough to make something mature.

Hi. I'm new to requesting.

How do you write horror, and how do you write it good nail biting and very unsettling type of horror.

Thank you @differentnighttale for the request! I was wondering if you had more specific asks since there are various different types of horror stories and various different ways of making something horrifying.

Again, I am very willing to give you advice on writing horror and I just want to ask you for more details so I can give you the best of what I have to offer :)

How To Scare Your Readers

tw: mentions of murder and other horror media, its not specific or gorey but I just wanted to mention it

Today is one my hardest asks as it is a highly individual process to freaking out your audience with @differentnighttale asking: "How do you write horror, and how do you write it good nail biting and very unsettling type of horror."

Specifically, we are focusing on supernatural horror and dark fantasy. Due to the fact that there are numerous ways of scaring an audience, I'm going to focus on more diverse and interesting ways to freak out the readers. There are obvious tricks like "focus on the tactile senses" and stuff like that but let's cover something not as cliche!

Again, there are many ways to instill horror.

One: Combine Beauty And The Macabre

While this is a common trick seen in visual horror such as the works of Junji Ito or Midsommar, it's also an important and useful element in other beloved horror media.

This can be useful for a myriad of reasons.

The ability to combine the fantastical beauty of the scenery with death or the lovingly detailed imagery of a victimized body might be just the thing to elevate the scenery and visuals.

It also works to surprise your readers. If you are reading horror, you expect the murder and terror to appear in dark hospitals and obviously disgusting places. But what if the horror was in a cherry blossom field? In the church? In the character's childhood bedroom during the sunset?

It follows the perversion of the familiar. Most people internalize certain environments are seperated from society which might assist you if you are going for that specific type of horror. BUT! If you have horror in the supermarket, in the coziest little cottage, in the beauty.

TWO: Focus On A Specific Brand Of Horror

This is especially important for horror that is based off of pop culture spooks such as ghosts, ghouls, witches, zombies, and werewolfs.

Doing some research into why these monsters have survived in the public mind and what exactly is frightening abou them can influence your settings, characters, and horror.

There is horror about isolation.

There is horror about losing yourself.

There is horror about the female body.

There is horror about puberty.

There is horror about gender dysphoria.

There is horror about everything.

Decide what is the core fear you are proding at.

THREE: Be Ambiguous

Readers are comforted by linear stories with a beginning, clearly laid out morality, and a clear cut ending which provides either a happy ending or a sad ending.

Messing up any one of these things can lead to your story haunting the minds of your audience for a long time.

Midsommar is constantly debated about over if the ending is happy or sad.

Joker(2019), a thriller but not a horror, is infamous for it's amazing usage of hallucination and delusion to tell a non-linear story with a confusing ending.

Leaving the ending, villain, characters, or plot ambiguous and not clearly detailed might elevate your horror :)

FOUR: Use Your Own Fears

When you write about what scares you, that natural fear tends to radiate into your writing more naturally :)

This fear can be a lot of things from the specific phobia of bugs to the fear of being mistreated by a loved one.

Conclusion:

I hope I gave you some interesting advice that you haven't heard before @differentnighttale

p.s: at what point does something become "Mature"? I did mention "murder" throughout my post somewhat frequently but I never went into specific detail so I can't tell if it's "Mature" or not?

If it is mature and I mislabeled it then I can edit it to be "Mature"

I'm always impressive ;)

Writing Prompt: Isekai And Reincarnation

This for those pesky moments when you have characters that are resurrected/transferred into different world(s) but you just can't decide how it goes.

Here Is Story Inspiration For The ISEKAI Genre:

Your character is incapable of dealing with their unfortunate crimes and instead indulges in the world of dreams as a form of escape. However each time they escape into the world of fantasy, their actual body starts decaying and deforming. Eventually, their body will cease to exist if they refuse to stop.

When your character becomes reincarnated into the life-sized recreation of their book they think they have won the lottery however, secretly, a cult has actually orchestrated these events with the goal of using this broken hole between universes as a way of bringing in a God!

You're a video game character who has been taken from their digital universe in order to serve as the perfect servant for your creator. Are you really content living like this though?

Apparently, you are so hated by rich people that they have created a fake horrible life for you after believing your character has amnesia. However, your character was LYING. They never had amnesia and now need to figure out how to simultaneously fake their forgetfullness and get out of this fake-real reality.

A character in a seperate universe made of magic looked into the various realities in order to find the most compassionate person in existence since they believed that this kind individual would be easy to manipulate. While they succeeded in getting a compassionate person, they definitely didn't expect the added bonus of insanity!

You were just scrolling away on your phone when suddenly a crash is heard from outside your house. According to the mysterious magical "alien", they are a member of the royal family from a different world who was being chased by "someone" and had to run into the sacred interdimensional portal! Now they are demanding that you allow them to live here! While they certainly aren't human, they definitely have the manners of one :(

I am unfamilar with Harry Potter so I can't do anything character-specific HOWEVER I can do a general guide line thing

I just want to ask for some details from you, @stabbyapologist

Basic gist of what your OC is like since I don't want the FBI to break into my room if your OC is underage

Are you only searching for advice on whether or not the concept is interesting or cliche or is there something more you are searching for?

To reiterate, I am exceedingly willing to do an entire post about this. I am only asking these questions both:

see if you are okay with my lack of fandom knowledge

What exactly you want since I want to give you the best

What Do YOU Need Writing Advice On?

I know I posted this a couple days ago but I am an unpopular tumblr account who barely gets interactions so constantly posting this question seems inevitable.

Again, ask me whatever you want. Anything. Heck, ask me to continue one of my previous series that you had an emotional attachment towards for some reason???