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We're rolling in on the end of Horror / Scary month and I'm sure many of you reading this newsletter have been prepping for NaNoWriMo. National Novel Writing Month is exciting for those doing the challenge. It's a stretch to pound away on the keyboard for an entire month. But the reward is walking away with a novel. Or at least something that resembles a novel.
For those not participating in the challenge, what are you doing? Are you getting ready for the holiday season, preparing fun acrostics for your friends or writing a story featuring your best friend's dog? Well let me tell you a secret...the contests and activities on the site are going to be a little quiet in November and December. What better time to try one and see if it is something you like?
You'll have time to create activities for 2020! Most contests use the forum item and have nearly the same template for setting up. You need a description of the contest, the rules, how to enter, prizes and judges. You don't need to set this up on the fly, you can put it all together, have a friend take a look for errors and then set it away until it's time to open the contest. Certainly, it's a less stressful production if done ahead of time.
But in the long run, give yourself time to think about what you want to accomplish before the end of the year. Did you enter "Dear Me" last year? Did you reach any goals? Are you close to a goal? The holidays are approaching and most of us have less time to devote to our creativity. Let's focus and make a plan to reach some goals by the end of the year!
This month's question: What is your focus until the end of the year? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback!
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Excerpt: October is Adopt a Shelter Dog Month!!
Excerpt: This contest uses only spoken words or internal dialogue!
Excerpt: All entries that follow ALL of the prompt requirements will be judged according to the creativity in responding to the writing prompt only. This means that grammatical errors WILL NOT be a determining factor in deciding the winner!
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Excerpt: Open to entries from all members that have been registered with WDC for 6 months or less. This contest is intended to showcase your work and give it the exposure it deserves. There's no prompt. Items can be new or old work, and there's no requirement to disclose the creation date.
Excerpt: If words are bland and boring writing can be a miserable, lifeless thing.
If they are interesting and vivid, writing flies off the page and into our hearts.
Excerpt: This is a 13 month challenge where you will enter a contest at least 12 of those 13 months. (You can complete the challenge in 12 months if you don't miss a month, but you get one "vacation" month in case life just rolls over you.) You don't have to win. You just have to have a legitimate entry. This challenge is on a rotating basis. Jump in whenever you'd like, just be sure to post a contest entry at least 12 out of 13 months!
Excerpt: This Raffle and Auction: I love WdC so much I want a Premium membership and I would also like to donate GPs to Blog-City Prompt Forum "Blog City Prompt Forum" . In addition to all this, I have added: "Some Fun Gnome Activities" towards the bottom of this Forum Page for you to check out also. This is my first time running a Raffle and Auction so please be patient with me while I get to know how to run these lol. In addition, I have a trinket for you here at the bottom of this forum. There will be another one later on so you should be sure to check back frequently.
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This month's question: What is your focus until the end of the year? Send in your answer below! Editors love feedback!
Last month's question: What gothic / horror / scary element makes you most squeamish?
Paul  : Nothing really, they’re all fantasy. What frightens me is reality and the downhill path the world seem to be taking with all the radical nationalism.
s  :
Nothing really. I think I've written most horror tropes. But vomitting blood and bile is still pretty gross...
balloon  :
I see faint outlines in the dark, but then I just push the thoughts away and turn on a flashlight - not to shine at whatever it was, but instead, open up a book and read.
Jack Henry :
Clowns. Clowns are scary because they put on a funny face but deep inside they are full of angst. A clown with power is terrifying. They could do things like start a trade war.
Scifiwizard Retired : Bad acting.
GaelicQueen  : Dark basement crowded with stored boxes and travel trunks. The barely audible whispered warning to get out as the sound of the deadbolt lock is clicked into place.
David Clemens : Spiders! Yikes!  
Gentle Giantess's Rule How the villains kill their victim's.
shepherd46: Being in a dark space--probably a basement and not seeing any way out!
Lynn Nichole : Being eaten, especially alive. There are specific stories and movies that I cannot deal with for this reason.
TheBusmanPoet : Nothing. I've seen just about everything.
BIG BAD WOLF is hopping  : I dislike slasher-type horror films - I don't like human monsters. Not into possession/demonic stuff either.
Beholden  : I have now written precisely two horror stories, which hardly qualifies me as an expert. But, in reading others' horror stories, I find myself unmoved (and unsqueamish therefore) by such things as vampires, zombies, werewolves, etc. Maybe it's too much exposure to television versions of classic monsters.
What does get to me is when the writer uses my own empathy to feel what the protagonist feels. That requires some accurate description of feeling and emotion plus an experience in the reader of something very similar to what is being described. As an example, both of my stories concern fairly commonplace sensations (peeling skin and tasting something disgusting) magnified to the point of horror (well, I hope so, anyway).
There, now you have all my limited and inexperienced tricks for writing horror. I really don't know why I answer these Newsfeed posts.
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