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 Writing.Com Newsletter Archives: Horror/Scary |
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To view an Horror/Scary newsletter, click an issue date: |
| #4878: | February 15, 2012  | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading   |
| Romanticizing the Dark Side Avarice and vengeance go hand in hand when romancing the darkness without - and within | ||
| #4867: | February 08, 2012 | Brooke-Happy Anniversary Jeff!  |
| Kidnapped! Nomar Knight Speaks 01.29.12 Interview two in a series to learn more about our fellow Horror authors. | ||
| #4857: | February 01, 2012 | Demon Squirrel of Doom!  |
| They want YOUR brains!!!! Of all the monsters are in literary and movie history, none are as frightening as the zombie. | ||
| #4837: | January 25, 2012 | LJPC - the tortoise   |
| A Horror of Adjectives How to eliminate adjectives that confuse readers and choose the right ones to make your images memorable. | ||
| #4830: | January 18, 2012 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| ProvokeTerror with Horror Horror provokes fear and terror in the reader / watcher / listener ~ Go for It ! | ||
| #4817: | January 11, 2012 | Brooke-Happy Anniversary Jeff! |
| Kidnapped! SoCalScribe Speaks 01.03.12 Interview one in a series to learn more about our fellow Horror authors. | ||
| #4805: | January 04, 2012 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| You Do What??? Considered an oddball by the scientific community, Cryptozoologists are a wonderful character for a funny horror story. | ||
| #4788: | December 27, 2011 | LJPC - the tortoise |
| Holiday Horror: Juxtaposition Find out why Holidays and Horror go together. | ||
| #4781: | December 20, 2011 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| Horror = Hard-wired or Learned? Horror- hard-wired to sentient psyches, or learned through interaction with family, society, community? | ||
| #4759: | December 13, 2011 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ  |
| A Fond Farewell My last Horror/Scary Newsletter | ||
| #4758: | December 06, 2011 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| The Perfect Monster Finding the Perfect Monster for Your Horror Story | ||
| #4744: | November 29, 2011 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| Outfitting Your Zombie Hunter The perfect weapon for the job...if the job is zombie hunting that is!! | ||
| #4732: | November 22, 2011 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| Holidays ~ Unwelcome Gatherings Who says holidays are a fun scare?? Well, they can be if you have it your way with them. | ||
| #4713: | November 15, 2011 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| The Horror Of Thanksgiving Bringing family together for the holidays can be scary | ||
| #4712: | November 08, 2011 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| Clowning Around With Evil Everyone's afraid of something. Me, I'm terrified of clowns. But are they something to be feared, or just laughed at? | ||
| #4697: | November 02, 2011 | Brooke-Happy Anniversary Jeff! |
| Reality is Scary Reality is scary. If your characters and situations are plausible, the fear will follow. | ||
| #4682: | October 26, 2011 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| Apparitions~Haunted or Haunting? Apparitions ~ Haunted or haunting, they come when they're bidden by their need or your desire | ||
| #4669: | October 19, 2011 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| A Family Halloween An insiders view of a family of monsters | ||
| #4664: | October 12, 2011 | Satuawany |
| WAKE UP Implied stories get readers to scare themselves. | ||
| #4653: | October 05, 2011 | SoCalScribe is 9 today!  |
| Two Sources of Inspiration Scaring people with what they know versus what they didn't know they should be afraid of? | ||
| #4634: | September 28, 2011 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| What Scares Me ~ Knowing it's real~maybe It may not be what scares you ~ but if I make you believe ~ that's another story, right? | ||
| #4619: | September 21, 2011 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| The Face of Terror Observing the people of New York on 9-11 | ||
| #4617: | September 14, 2011 | SoCalScribe is 9 today! |
| Alone Is there anything more terrifying than being forever alone? | ||
| #4599: | September 07, 2011 | Brooke-Happy Anniversary Jeff! |
| Celebrating the Birthdays of Two Legends Celebrating the birthdays of two legends in the Writing community. | ||
| #4589: | August 31, 2011 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| Beware~You May Get Just What You Wish! What you wish for ~ beware! you may 'get it' | ||
| #4569: | August 24, 2011 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| THE FOUR MAGIC WORDS Every story you write must make your reader ask the four magic words. | ||
| #4568: | August 17, 2011 | SoCalScribe is 9 today! |
| Atmosphere Atmosphere is about more than just the weather. | ||
| #4546: | August 10, 2011 | Kittiara |
| The Fear of the Familiar Sometimes the most frightening stories hit close to home. | ||
| #4531: | August 03, 2011 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| When Animals Act Human -> True Horror Animals take on human characteristics, whether real or perceived, to instill horror upon hapless humans | ||
| #4517: | July 27, 2011 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| The Horror of a Birthday If Horror had a birthday, I suppose it would be on Halloween. | ||
| #4495: | July 13, 2011 | StaiNed  |
| `Condiments not needed. Never forget the horror we try to forget` Consume they do! | ||
| #4486: | July 06, 2011 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| Kids Like Being Scared ~ Really! As long as they can exert control at some point ~ kids enjoy a good scare ~ | ||
| #4473: | June 29, 2011 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| Now, That's Insane! Asyums and the Crazy Characters That Live There | ||
| #4462: | June 22, 2011 | Adriana Noir  |
| The Final Cut For better or worse, everything must come to an end. Make sure you leave your audience with the right impression! | ||
| #4452: | June 15, 2011 | Satuawany |
| Building Up the Horror Let me tell you how my friends and I used to scare people. | ||
| #4438: | June 08, 2011 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| In Your Dreams Dreams - both night and day - a minefield of images, visions, and perhaps wishes | ||
| #4422: | June 01, 2011 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| The Anguish Depression so severe that pain looks inviting | ||
| #4397: | May 18, 2011 | Sara♥Jean  |
| How to Garner Suspense Movies have creepy music to indicate to the watcher that something is about to happen. What can authors do? | ||
| #4382: | May 11, 2011 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| What you don't always see~but know More horrific than the anatomy lesson splattered over the floor, tell the tale of what was, is, and will be | ||
| #4367: | May 04, 2011 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| THE ALIEN CONSPIRACY Top Secret Group, Majestic-12, and THE ALIEN CONSPIRACY | ||
| #4357: | April 27, 2011 | Adriana Noir |
| Deadly Darlings Beware of your conscience when venturing into horror. It may leave you defenseless. | ||
| #4346: | April 20, 2011 | Satuawany |
| No Blaming the Victim A story isn't as scary if readers know it can't happen to them. | ||
| #4337: | April 13, 2011 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| Watch what you ask for~you may get it And take for granted that what we have we shall keep ~ but sometimes what we think we want, we ought not covet | ||
| #4321: | April 06, 2011 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| Damaged Goods Inventing characters from our own experiences | ||
| #4310: | March 30, 2011 | Adriana Noir |
| Unleashed Temperatures are on the rise. So is evil. There's no better time to be a horror writer or fan. | ||
| #4286: | March 16, 2011 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| Tales from the Wild Weird West The unknown resounds in both westerns and tales of horror ~ where the line between myth and reality is a blur to explore | ||
| #4272: | March 09, 2011 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| All The Time In The World A brief look at slowing down time in your writing | ||
| #4264: | March 02, 2011 | Adriana Noir |
| Hyping up the Horror A quick four-point checklist to help you amp up the horror and send chills down your reader's' spine. | ||
| #4253: | February 23, 2011 | Fyn - cough hack gasp  |
| The Stuff of Nightmares What is it that really scares you? | ||
| #4237: | February 16, 2011 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| Love Gone Horribly Wrong The horror of passion perceived or conceived that is spurned or, worse, unrecognized | ||
| #4224: | February 09, 2011 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| Diagnosis: Horror Explaining clever words and devices to show horror without using gore. | ||
| #4214: | February 02, 2011 | Adriana Noir |
| A Call for Horror Heed that fearsome howl and check out a few places open and waiting for your submissions! | ||
| #4206: | January 26, 2011 | Legerdemain  |
| Oh So Squeamish! What makes your skin crawl and your toes curl? | ||
| #4190: | January 19, 2011 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| It was a dark and stormy night... It's not the writer, but the reader's imagination, that puts the scare in horror ~ incite imagination with your words | ||
| #4176: | January 12, 2011 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| Looking At It Another Way A brief look into rehashing an old storylne into something new | ||
| #4163: | January 05, 2011 | Adriana Noir |
| Monster Mash What impact has the cross-genre frenzy had on horror as a whole? | ||
| #4150: | December 28, 2010 | Legerdemain |
| Making Words Powerful Powerful words, especially in the horror/scary genre can be an important tool to your story. | ||
| #4139: | December 21, 2010 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| Trapped~in a bottleneck of trouble Horror in a bottleneck ~ when what's outside, known or imagined, is more fearful than the fact of being trapped | ||
| #4125: | December 14, 2010 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| Reading & Writing By Instinct A brief look at 'beginnings and endings' and how to tell which are the 'good' ones. | ||
| #4100: | November 30, 2010 | StaiNed |
| Snow, Cold, & Mayham Snow may look like glitter, but it may trap people indoors with killers and malevolent spirits. | ||
| #4088: | November 23, 2010 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| Aliens Among Us ~ Scanned Airport scanners reveal anatomical anomalies, surgically concealed - or enhanced | ||
| #4074: | November 16, 2010 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| The Monster In this issue I discuss random thoughts about Frankenstein | ||
| #4050: | November 03, 2010 | StaiNed |
| 'Porcelain, Horror & Evil Drains' Never doubt the horror of a common place. | ||
| #4028: | October 27, 2010 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| Through the Veil ~ with Their Eyes Haunting with their eyes ~ your faerie, ghost, gnome, undine ~ let them show you how to cross through the veil | ||
| #4024: | October 20, 2010 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| The Home Nursing Homes: The Scariest Place On Earth? | ||
| #4020: | October 13, 2010 | Ben Langhinrichs-quiet |
| Things That go Bump in the Night Sometimes the scariest things are closest to home. | ||
| #4000: | October 06, 2010 | Ben Langhinrichs-quiet |
| The Unsparkly Undead - Zombies Save your garlic for pesto. Forget sexy or angsty or complex. Zombies are unrelenting, unsympathetic and hungry. | ||
| #3967: | September 29, 2010 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| Encounters with Cthulhu ~ and Others Cthulhu worldbuilding out of this world | ||
| #3975: | September 22, 2010 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| What Wicked Weather We're Writing Describing the weather and setting the scene | ||
| #3963: | September 15, 2010 | Adriana Noir |
| The Fallen Will Rise Again A brief overview of demons and why they are the ultimate horror "baddies." | ||
| #3942: | September 01, 2010 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| When Less is More ~ Horrific Horror lends itself to vivid tactile expression, brief and to the point ~ in prose and verse often less is more | ||
| #3927: | August 25, 2010 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| Kill Your Darlings Edit with a vengence | ||
| #3914: | August 18, 2010 | Adriana Noir |
| The Birth of Evil We all know this word and its connotations, but how is such a destructive force born? What fuels its fire? | ||
| #3903: | August 11, 2010 | StaiNed |
| Phantoms of The High Seas A glimpse into the horror and folklore of a certain ghost ship. | ||
| #3843: | August 04, 2010 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| The Horror of Presence The presence, known or unknown, evokes as much horror as does absence | ||
| #3877: | July 28, 2010 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| The Mind Of A Horror Writer A brief glimpse at the workings of a horror writer | ||
| #3863: | July 21, 2010 | Adriana Noir |
| Curses Psychosomatic or real-life horror . . . either way, they provide great fodder for fear! | ||
| #3847: | July 14, 2010 | Legerdemain |
| The Body's Reaction to Fright Find out what happens during a "fight or flight" response to fear. | ||
| #3794: | July 07, 2010 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| Horror ~ engaging the unknown What compels humans to seek tales of horror ~ write to humans' need for the unfamiliar, make them known the unknown | ||
| #3824: | June 30, 2010 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| Spiders A brief story I wrote about pesky black widows | ||
| #3816: | June 23, 2010 | Adriana Noir |
| The Human Abyss Sometimes real horror doesn't come from monsters, but from within us. | ||
| #3799: | June 16, 2010 | SoCalScribe is 9 today! |
| The Unknown The unknown can often be more frightening that what is known. | ||
| #3783: | June 09, 2010 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| Horror ~ learned or hard-wired? Is horror learned, or hard-wired into our human psyches ~ let's explore | ||
| #3769: | June 02, 2010 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| Joust Of Horror Come enter the field of horror writer's to win a chance to compete against the Supreme Knight | ||
| #3766: | May 26, 2010 | Adriana Noir |
| An Evil Necessity Horror writers are often cut down, the genre belittled as a "hack." Here's why we should all hold our heads high! | ||
| #3742: | May 19, 2010 | Ben Langhinrichs-quiet |
| The Origin of the Beast Recapture the horror by exploring how your vampire, werewolf or zombie came into being. | ||
| #3676: | May 12, 2010 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| Suspending Disbelief If you make your characters, and readers, enter a believable otherworld, mundane or fantastic, you can make them flinch | ||
| #3704: | May 05, 2010 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #3697: | April 28, 2010 | Adriana Noir |
| #3682: | April 21, 2010 | StaiNed |
| #3640: | April 14, 2010 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #3651: | April 07, 2010 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #3642: | March 31, 2010 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #3629: | March 24, 2010 | StaiNed |
| #3610: | March 17, 2010 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #3599: | March 10, 2010 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #3584: | March 03, 2010 | Adriana Noir |
| #3566: | February 24, 2010 | StaiNed |
| #3557: | February 17, 2010 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #3542: | February 10, 2010 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #3532: | February 03, 2010 | Adriana Noir |
| #3520: | January 27, 2010 | StaiNed |
| #3506: | January 20, 2010 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #3495: | January 13, 2010 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #3480: | January 06, 2010 | Adriana Noir |
| #3470: | December 30, 2009 | StaiNed |
| #3456: | December 23, 2009 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #2776: | December 16, 2009 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #3414: | December 02, 2009 | StaiNed |
| #3406: | November 25, 2009 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #3384: | November 18, 2009 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #3381: | November 11, 2009 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #3367: | November 04, 2009 | StaiNed |
| #3353: | October 28, 2009 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #3339: | October 21, 2009 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #3335: | October 14, 2009 | Legerdemain |
| #3312: | October 07, 2009 | StaiNed |
| #3304: | September 30, 2009 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #3282: | September 23, 2009 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #3276: | September 16, 2009 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #3258: | September 09, 2009 | StaiNed |
| #3253: | September 02, 2009 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #3236: | August 26, 2009 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #3228: | August 19, 2009 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #3207: | August 12, 2009 | StaiNed |
| #3199: | August 05, 2009 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #3182: | July 29, 2009 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #3176: | July 22, 2009 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #3132: | July 15, 2009 | StaiNed |
| #3154: | July 08, 2009 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #3134: | July 01, 2009 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #3123: | June 24, 2009 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #3093: | June 17, 2009 | StaiNed |
| #3103: | June 10, 2009 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #3081: | June 03, 2009 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #3065: | May 27, 2009 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #3062: | May 20, 2009 | Diane  |
| #3051: | May 13, 2009 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #3030: | May 06, 2009 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #2984: | April 29, 2009 | esprit |
| It's Only Horror. Where has all the imagination gone? Real horror comes from messing with the mind--not just gobs of gore. | ||
| #3009: | April 22, 2009 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #2999: | April 15, 2009 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #2992: | April 08, 2009 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #2969: | April 01, 2009 | Just an Ordinary Jyo |
| #2960: | March 25, 2009 | Smiling Sonali WDC Power #1!  |
| Aspects of Fear What is fear? What does it do? What does that mean for a horror writer? | ||
| #2949: | March 18, 2009 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #2927: | March 11, 2009 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #2919: | March 04, 2009 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #2899: | February 18, 2009 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #2878: | February 11, 2009 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #2867: | February 04, 2009 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #2858: | January 28, 2009 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #2840: | January 21, 2009 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #2826: | January 14, 2009 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #2818: | January 07, 2009 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #2789: | December 24, 2008 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #2778: | December 17, 2008 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #2767: | December 10, 2008 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #2754: | December 03, 2008 | iKïyå§ama  |
| #2739: | November 26, 2008 | Kate~Rune Writing & Reading |
| #2719: | November 19, 2008 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #2712: | November 12, 2008 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #2681: | October 29, 2008 | Robert Waltz  |
| #2672: | October 22, 2008 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #2665: | October 15, 2008 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #2653: | October 08, 2008 | Joy  |
| #2624: | September 24, 2008 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #2619: | September 17, 2008 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #2596: | September 10, 2008 | Legerdemain |
| #2589: | September 03, 2008 | Sarah |
| #2579: | August 27, 2008 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #2562: | August 20, 2008 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #2546: | August 13, 2008 | spidey |
| #2508: | August 06, 2008 | Sarah |
| #2525: | July 30, 2008 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #2517: | July 23, 2008 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #2505: | July 16, 2008 | RobiMediaExcellenceAwardWinner  |
| #2493: | July 09, 2008 | Sarah |
| #2475: | July 02, 2008 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #2462: | June 25, 2008 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #2453: | June 18, 2008 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #2443: | June 11, 2008 | Sarah |
| #2425: | June 04, 2008 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #2412: | May 28, 2008 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #2364: | May 21, 2008 | Texas Belle |
| #2385: | May 14, 2008 | Sarah |
| #2375: | May 07, 2008 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #2369: | April 30, 2008 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #2351: | April 23, 2008 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #2333: | April 16, 2008 | Sarah |
| #2317: | April 09, 2008 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #2312: | April 02, 2008 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #2300: | March 26, 2008 | Schipperke  |
| #2270: | March 19, 2008 | Sarah |
| #2266: | March 12, 2008 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #2258: | March 05, 2008 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #2243: | February 27, 2008 | Schipperke |
| #2227: | February 20, 2008 | Sarah |
| #2216: | February 13, 2008 | W.D.Wilcox © ¿ Φ |
| #2210: | February 06, 2008 | Demon Squirrel of Doom! |
| #2196: | January 30, 2008 | Schipperke |
| #2121: | January 23, 2008 | Sarah |
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