This is a repost from Let the Words Flow, but I've updated it. To be totally honest, I've learned a bit more about the subject since I first tackled it. This post originally stemmed from a question about Something Strange and Deadly. Since the book has ghosts and walking corpses, someone asked, "How do you write a scary scene?" With that I sat down and thought about what makes a scene scary—how I crafted the frightening bits and what I found scariest in movies/books. Lately, though, I've taken to watching things outside my usual movie/TV fare—scarier things, to be precise. I am the world's BIGGEST wuss, and my overactive imagination is not to be trifled with. Yet out of a desire to understand thrillers a wee bit better, I've forced myself to watch more (through my fingers, of course). And here's what I've come up with—a few things I think are needed to make an edge-of-the-seat scene:
How to write a scary scene
How to write a scary scene
How to write a scary scene
This is a repost from Let the Words Flow, but I've updated it. To be totally honest, I've learned a bit more about the subject since I first tackled it. This post originally stemmed from a question about Something Strange and Deadly. Since the book has ghosts and walking corpses, someone asked, "How do you write a scary scene?" With that I sat down and thought about what makes a scene scary—how I crafted the frightening bits and what I found scariest in movies/books. Lately, though, I've taken to watching things outside my usual movie/TV fare—scarier things, to be precise. I am the world's BIGGEST wuss, and my overactive imagination is not to be trifled with. Yet out of a desire to understand thrillers a wee bit better, I've forced myself to watch more (through my fingers, of course). And here's what I've come up with—a few things I think are needed to make an edge-of-the-seat scene: