#WritingHorrors #Writing 1. Describe a monster from your setting or story.
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The other woman was dressed in a white kimono that billowed strangely. It was as inappropriate as the light cotton housedress Shiomi wore. My blood ran cold, and I almost froze with terror at the unbelievable sight of Mikawa-san.
Long black hair, flying in a wind no one but she could feel, framed a blackened and bloated face. It was the face of a corpse returned from the grave.
#WritingHorrors 1. Describe a monster from your setting or story.
Two for one.
Angelo, the melting wax man and Rita the... whatever Rita is. Davey Jones' party niece (?)
@raccoon I'm bookmarking this one to get back to, since I just launched my own #EngenderedWriting hash tag about gendered fiction. I'll give #writinghorrors a look this weekend. Good luck!
#WritingHorrors #1 "Describe a monster from your setting or story."
I just spent Inktober telling the story of the Human Chair. It’s obviously inspired by Ranpo’s novel title but the story is quite different
You read it here on Mastodon https://mamot.fr/@nautilebleu/113230580574481310
Or on deviantart https://www.deviantart.com/nautilebleu/gallery/94035535/inktober-2024-the-human-chair
#WritingHorrors #1 "Describe a monster from your setting or story."
#Modders #scifi #BrainUploading #alien #microfiction
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Jack shivered involuntarily as he watched the writhing of the multitude of connections, impulses flowing in and out of the visualization, bursts of terrabytes going at the speed of light. This was his third time beholding Collective in its place on the cloud, and still, he found even the simulation of his organic brain unable to process the scope of it.
Nearby, Nuki's avatar, a green dragoness covered in "magical" runes, hung from a set of wires made of pure light, jerking about involuntarily as the hivemind's thoughts flowed through it uncontrollably. He didn't understand the process beyond that, he didn't understand how someone could link to it and still come out comprehending it.
Then again, Nuki had been around for over a century, and the last few decades of that existence had been entirely virtual.
@raccoon@writing.exchangeHappy #Halloween, fellow #Writers. Here is your #Horror-related #WritingPrompt for the night...
Describe a monster from your setting or story.
Remember that "monster" is a very broad term: monsters can be anything ranging from everyday humans who do monstrous things, or just another word for a misunderstood creature.
@raccoon@writing.exchangeThat said, these may not be relevant to every story: asking a character, “Have you ever killed anyone?” may not be a relevant question in your story, and that’s ok. Conversely, if you’re writing a story for mature audiences, you might ask why not: plenty of people kill people in real life, and not necessarily as a crime, and plenty of people who haven’t can tell you an interesting story of someone who has.
With all that said, go ahead and look at the #WritingHorrors tag for the first one...
@raccoon@writing.exchangeWe’ve been talking for a while about creating a #WritingHorrors series, similar to #WritingWonders / #WordWeavers / #WritersCoffeeClub, but for #writers of #horror, #DarkFantasy, or who just want to enhance their #writing with #dwrk elements in general.
This will be a series of short questions with a few longer #WritingPrompts mixed in, intended to help improve yourself as a #writer, and to improve whatever #story you’re working on.
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@raccoon@writing.exchange@ixtlidekami
It's #WritingHorrors now.
Follow that hashtag and see this post for details...
https://writing.exchange/@raccoon/113217921178961847
@raccoon@writing.exchange(golly, I'm sure used to more than 500 characters on the non-writing account, lol)
So if y'all are interested, go ahead and follow the #WritingHorrors hashtag, and I'll try to toss in the first question in the next couple days!
Please #boost the above post so more writers can see it!
@raccoon@writing.exchangeLast year, I was talking about starting some sort of #WritingPrompt / #WritingQuestions hashtag for #Horror and #DarkFantasy #writers, like #WritingWonders or #WordWeavers / #WritersCoffeeClub, but this would be #WritingHorrors and ask questions about morbid topics within #stories.
The post was https://writing.exchange/@raccoon/110379438345748519
I got very sidetracked at some point, but I'd still like to do it, and with #October / #Halloween just around the corner, I'm going to try and start that up soon.
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