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What Books Scared You As a Kid? – GalleyCat
What Books Scared You As a Kid? – GalleyCat.
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Newsletter
To your right, if you hadn’t noticed, there’s a link to sign up for my newsletter. It won’t be an everyday mailing, or every week for that matter, more like quarterly (until there’s books to report than it may go to monthly). So, if you’d like, please join me on this writer’s journey.
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On the Oddities Discovered while Researching…
Researching Takes Writers to Some Odd Info… Traci Kenworth I never know what piece of information I’m going to have to look into while writing stories. Just this past week, I learned about Incorruptible, those are bodies that appear saintly after death such as St. Bernadette—1844-1879 and St. Charbel—1898. Of course, both are known…
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Things That Go Bump in the Night
Things That Go Bump in the Night Traci Kenworth I prefer the word Scary book to Horror. Most likely because most people think of horror as an abomination and although some of the things I write about, no doubt, are, I still prefer to leave the reader with something to think about on a…
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Relationships in Horror
Relationships are Key to Horror Traci Kenworth For me, when writing horror, the relationships are the key. The ones between your characters and, most importantly, the reader. Because if the reader doesn’t care what happens to them, then the book’s just going to be tossed aside or deteriorate on the shelves. So how do…
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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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The Leibster Blog Award
I’ve been tagged by YA Author, Vanessa Barger for The Leibster Award. It’s where I tell you 11 Fun Facts about myself, answer 11 questions, and come up with another 11 questions for the bloggers I choose. So let’s get started: 11 Fun Facts: 1. I used…
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Traci Ashbe Dark Epic Fantasy Author 