There are five ways to start a story.
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Horror means scaring your readers! Scaring does not mean blood and guts for the sake of showing blood and guts - it means making the reader believe that something horrible could happen to them! It means making them afraid to sleep with the lights off!
Here are some tips for writing a good horror story:
Ten Horror Cliches to Avoid
Joyce Carol Oates said it best: "The first sentence can't be written until the final sentence is written."
Worry about finishing your story, not about writing the perfect opening sentence! You can change anything you like once you've finished -- go back and think of a great first sentence then, instead of waiting for some magical "first sentence" to fall out of the sky and hit you in the head.
Now get off the internet and get back to writing that story!
The ending of a story is crucial. The whole climax of the story is building up to this point. The ending should bring closure to the horror of the rest of the story, and should show the reader what happens to the characters right after the story climax.
Horror stories have two major categories to base endings on:
1- Gore (Physical horror)
2- Psychological Horror
Making characters die is overly done, but easy. Everyone expects the teenagers who have sex to get killed, or the one who goes into the basement with just a flashlight.
Psychological horror is more difficult, and relies on mystery. You could have a mysterious fog, ghosts, deadly plagues, whatever.
The point of the conclusion is to wrap things up. Have all the horror done with and get the characters either to safety or to their doom!
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Nobody can write your story but you -- just start writing!
The title must come from your story, not the other way around! Write the story first, and then you can find the title yourself!
The only good topic for any writer is one that they are interested in! Pick a topic that seems scary to you, that way you will be interested in writing it instead of trying to do a boring assignment.
You start every story the same way -- in the middle of the action. Here is a good link to help you out.
You start all stories the same way -- in the middle of the action. Here's a good link.
Macabre basically means spooky or scary. You should start by reading some talented writers who do that sort of thing, like Stephen King or Dean Koontz. Learn how they do it, and then you'll know how to start practicing on your own. You need to know what's scary and how to scare your readers, and you need to do it in a way that surprises them instead of just throwing blood and guts around for no good reason.
You've got this backwards -- the title comes from the story, not the other way around! Write the story first, then the title will come out of that.
Mood is the way that the author feels toward the story, such as scary, happy, sad etc...
The same way you start any story -- plant your butt in a chair and get started! Seriously, there is no "perfect way" to start stories. Begin at the beginning of the action and write until the action ends. That's how all good stories are written. Here's a link to help you a little more.
tension in harry potter is created because there is a really good and scary story line.The way they make the film with the events that happen in harry potter create lots of tension.
A good title can be anything you want -- just remember, the title comes last. Your title must come from your story, not the other way around.
watch a lot of them and become desensitized.
You start every story the same way -- in the middle of the action. Click the link to learn more.