tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post4493282038285572980..comments2024-03-29T03:28:22.296-05:00Comments on Writing In The Crosshairs: WHY HORROR?_A HALLOWEEN REFLECTIONRoland D. Yeomanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-10406093814205086052011-11-01T09:31:37.871-05:002011-11-01T09:31:37.871-05:00I read/write horror because it is fun, honest, and...I read/write horror because it is fun, honest, and visceral.<br /><br />I don't think anything is more honest than a good jolt. People can fake being brave, but not scared. If you scare the reader (or if you make them cry, or yank out some other emotion), then you (or I) as a writer have done their (or my) job.<br /><br />That's why I like it. It's real.<br /><br /><br /> - EricEric W. Tranthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13842968931062056407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-73718101583370543362011-10-31T02:49:34.437-05:002011-10-31T02:49:34.437-05:00You are the master at horor Roland :)
Yep, the mo...You are the master at horor Roland :)<br /><br />Yep, the more realist it is, the creepier. Hard to look away.<br /><br />I have to admit I'm drawn to the genre, both as reader and writer. Thanks for making this spooky weekend spookier :)<br /><br />........dholedolorahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08715849844092553699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-24540782637649568552011-10-31T01:05:39.736-05:002011-10-31T01:05:39.736-05:00Laila :
I'm going to be the undead Texas Range...Laila :<br />I'm going to be the undead Texas Ranger, Sam McCord, this weekend, looking for my lost empress, Meilori! No wolfmen allowed! LOL. I've missed you.<br /><br />Julie :<br />Yes, I've been reading the autobiography of Jung lately. I like how his mind works. Like you, I work in healthcare and some of the most horrendous things came from "normal" people, masking a darkness no one suspected. HAPPY HALLOWEEN! RolandRoland D. Yeomanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-84212619547923392062011-10-30T19:58:28.407-05:002011-10-30T19:58:28.407-05:00I really like the Jung quote. Many of the horrifi...I really like the Jung quote. Many of the horrific things I have seen (I work in healthcare) came from people who on the surface were seemingly so put together and "normal." The monster is inside of us all.julie feddersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06621537183935460781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-3860461028744790242011-10-30T17:23:12.012-05:002011-10-30T17:23:12.012-05:00There's a certain enchantment associated with ...There's a certain enchantment associated with the paranormal and things we as a species don't really understand. Take the vampire, a combination of evil and sensuality, and still the number one costume for Halloween. Have a Happy Halloween, Roland the wolfman. :)Laila Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430076999393883312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-68063645952578727152011-10-30T16:01:45.047-05:002011-10-30T16:01:45.047-05:00Kitty :
The first ALIEN movie was most definitely ...Kitty :<br />The first ALIEN movie was most definitely horrifying. Alone in space with a slick, totally vicious, without morality or code, monster. Brrr.<br /><br />I was listening to a Thea Gilmore song, "Wondrous Thing," praising Love "and the devils who designed it." It's as if it cannot be fun if Light has had anything to do with it. What a world we live in, huh?<br /><br />Andrea :<br />Where I live, by a meandering bayou, mostly alone in the apartment complex -- it is easy to feel that there is more out there than we know -- or are even able to know.<br /><br />That fellow most definitely talking to the Darkness within himself, whatever he called it.<br /><br />All my stories and novels, like yours, ask, "What If?"<br /><br />Oh, my there is a knocking from WITHIN MY CLOSET. What's that sound? The whisper, "I'm lonely. Let me out."<br /><br />Should I?Roland D. Yeomanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-6702259840021114062011-10-30T11:55:09.687-05:002011-10-30T11:55:09.687-05:00I suppose I'm drawn to horror and supernatural...I suppose I'm drawn to horror and supernatural fiction because I know there's something more out there than just us. However, since I can't qualify this feeling with anything tangible, I write about it instead. <br /><br />Years ago I attended church with a guy who swore he spoke to Satan. Although a huge part of me (huge) wanted to dismiss him as a nut, another small side wondered, what if?? I think the latter side, the more curious side, piqued my interest enough to write stories about these mysteries. Perhaps it's cathartic, I'm not sure, but whatever it is, it's fun to imagine these "what ifs."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00501918398545296619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-92112924715980571562011-10-30T09:08:11.523-05:002011-10-30T09:08:11.523-05:00Oh the allure of the dark side is more tempting an...Oh the allure of the dark side is more tempting and full of naughty possibilities than the light! Well in my head anyway!! <br /><br />I remember going on the Aliens ride when in Disney World - all it took was for me to get plunged in darkness and for the suggestion that a monster had escaped killing the scientists and was now out to get the rest of us for me to lose it completely. Yes, that was me screaming and crying hysterically to be let out and failing to get out of my harness...!<br /><br />Oh but I'd do it again! Take care<br />xOld Kittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13185547869183611159noreply@blogger.com