mere’s nook nook

my journey with writing horror started just a week or so ago. I had just received my copy of in the mouth of madness–the novelization based on the movie of the same name that I absolutely love. reading it and how straightforward, gory, unsettling, and uncomplicated it was really put a spark in my writing.

so I put my epic poem on indefinite pause and began writing a simple and straightforward horror.

so far, I have written a pretty extensive outline that I’m happy with enough to not tweak every single day. I wrote my prologue in about a day. about three pages worth that I am really happy with and have no interest in touching in the foreseeable future.

I have an idea of how I want my two main heroes to act like and sound like. I know how I want the monsters and villains to be. though I don’t know how far I should take the gore.

so far, I have a good idea as to how the story ends. all the pieces of this horror project are coming together much, much faster than my epic poem.

I’m excited and a little bit worried about how exactly to write my two heroes in a way that their actions–heroic, dumb, what have you–will be believable.

but this is just the very beginning of this particular writing adventure. I will keep coming back here to update with the ups and downs of writing.