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Do You Like Mystery in Your Horror?
Do You Like Mystery Involved with Your Horror? Traci Kenworth In the horror stories you read, do you like a bit of mystery involved with who/what the monster/evil etc. is? Or do you like to know up front what’s involved (vampires, werewolves, clowns) so you can dig into who the characters are and what…
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The Helpless Hero or Heroine…
Just a quick note about more changes to my blog. Since I made the last ones in January as I mentioned then, I was going to do some thinking on the state of things here. I love blogging, I do but I’ve come to realize it subtracts from the time I have for my stories…
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Mixing What You Know with Something You Don’t
Mixing What You Know with Something You Don’t Traci Kenworth In writing horror, we sometimes mix something we know with something we don’t. For instance, we pick a town, any town (or city), and set some monstrosity upon it. This has happened since writers first took up ink pens. Stephen King knows Maine.…
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Traditional versus New
The Traditional Versus the New Traci Kenworth Which do you prefer: traditional monsters or something brand new? I like both. Traditional are often easier to work with because the rules of their world have already been established. However, what we’ve never seen before is eye-popping. When it comes to traditional, adding your own…
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Scary…to me
Scary…to Me Traci Kenworth I considered many ways to write this blog but I couldn’t quite pinpoint what I wanted to say. We can define horror in many ways: evil, savage, beastly, to name a few. The fact of the matter is, the types are endless. When I write scary stories, it’s not to…
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The Future of Book Reviews on This Blog
The Future of Book Reviews on This Blog Traci Kenworth For some time I’ve been thinking about these book reviews and whether they take the blog in the direction I want it to go. I’ve decided that they don’t. This doesn’t mean I’m giving up on reading books or the…
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Craft Book
How to Understand & Negotiate a Book Contract or Magazine Agreement by Richard Balkin Traci Kenworth Writer’s Basic Bookshelf Writer’s Digest Books 1985 I happened across this find at a library book sale (yes, MANY good books turn up there. Lol.). Although I had to contend with notes handwritten by the previous book’s…
Forgiveness, Redemption, Hope
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Redemption, Forgiveness, and Hope
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