@gracewriteshorror: One of the best horror writing tips I have ever gotten #horrorauthor #horrorwriter #horrorbooktok #horrortok #horrorfan #horrorcommnuity #writingtips
There’s this game called slay the princess where the narrator says there’s this princess that you (the player) has to defeat in order to save the world, the narrator decides to not give you as much information abt the princess besides you needing to beat her, your decisions create what kind of proncess you will have to deal with after you slay her or let her go your first run, the second run, depending on how you treat her, she will be exactly how you envisioned her, if you prejudiced her as a monster, she will look like a monster, if you were nice to her, the narrator will force your hand to fight her or you and her will live forever, and the third run, depending on how you treated her, the fragment of every princess you created will be conjoined as one entity and she will either be your friend or foe
2025-08-02 21:45:43
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Butters :
is it bad I hate when the reveal is "furry monster with sharp teeth" like that takes me out
2025-08-01 14:00:34
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Astro🪐 :
Faceless horror monsters are my favorite, give me nothing and I’ll love it forever
2025-08-03 22:06:35
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Lil guy :
this is why The Thing is peak bc we never see it's 'true form' it only displays itself as near perfect copies and the only way to know who isn't who they say they are is a bloodtest or if it starts tweaking out
2025-08-01 17:38:46
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Michael Champagne898 :
however don't hide to much either
2025-08-01 21:22:55
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Ja’Kyra | ASN Student🩺 :
That’s why bird box is so eerie…
2025-08-24 23:14:49
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Gewgle :
Did I hear the unknown?
2025-08-01 23:37:23
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DLUX AJ :
yall know how the backrooms kinda got unscary cause people wohld explain every little thing, well one of them was actually done REALLY well and it was a dude who knew more about you depending on how much you knew about him, making it so as you read the page you wanted to KEEP the info available to you UNKNOWN.
2025-08-03 02:47:06
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gabrí☀ :
so hypothetically if your monster is a gang leader in a dystopan world and you HAVE to describe his looks, could he still be scary?
2025-08-02 19:09:16
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lioo :
My story is where the monster can take any form (wow creativity..) but during the story the mc is usually surrounded by crowds of animals, people or idk plants and ANY of those living objects COULD be the monster you just don’t know which
2025-08-02 23:04:49
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Chaos2TheFly :
this is why the older horror movies terrified me as a kid. the movies were written to tell a story and suspense.
2025-08-01 14:08:26
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Parzival ⊙⊝⊜ :
Bird Box was so scary bro 😭
2025-08-16 15:20:24
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I’m a gamer!!! :
this is why the blair witch project works so well for me
2025-08-04 04:50:03
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st4wb3rrysh04tc4k3 :
Yes omg everytime I watch a horror movie it feels so much less scary once the creature is revealed
2025-08-07 02:30:19
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Foxleap✧𓅚 :
Actually, thank you, because at some point my story does take place in Utah, where all sorts of creatures (folklore/paranormal) lurk...gonna use this tip
2025-08-01 18:51:20
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𝓈𝒾𝒸𝒾𝓁𝓎͏ :
If not you can be super subtle about it, where people are able to make similar interpretations but never the same design
2025-08-02 06:50:27
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Samantha Collins/ Author 📚✍️ :
When I am writing a horror element in my book I tend to express everything the characters is feeling.
2025-08-01 13:57:11
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poptartcat47 :
I use this tip when drawing horror too!! :)) always hide my monsters in the dark so whoever sees it doesn't know exactly what they're looking at, it always makes my drawings 10x creepier
2025-08-06 05:24:46
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gracie!!! :
“incident around the house” does a great job at this. “other mommy” has hairy arms and makes a scary face, no full descriptions of her appearance or anything
2025-08-08 00:03:37
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☣️totally_biohazard☣️ :
Almost nothing about him is ever really revealed he’s much scarier when written lol
2025-08-01 21:45:40
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Zipp3r :
my story takes place... SOMEWHERE IN NEVADA...
2025-08-02 01:39:30
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Kieran Oliver Murphy | writer :
The antagonist in my horror novel comes from money and is ab*sive as all hell. Just all around horrible person.
2025-08-01 21:34:51
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izzy b :
esparvially if your monster is related to supernatural or magical forces explaining exactly how and why it works kills a lot of the fear of the unknown wires into humans
2025-08-03 22:17:03
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Junkhead :
Exactly why jaws is so fire, the shark only has 4 minutes of screen time and you don’t even fully see it till an hour and 21 minutes into the movie
2025-08-02 21:54:15
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