Mood:
chillin'Now Playing: Garden of Allah, Don Henley
Topic: Instructional
Subjectivity
That's what we're going to talk about today. Writing is very subjective - you never know what is going to interest or completely turn off your readers. The same goes for genre writing.
Horror and humor are two of the most subjective genres. What is funny or scary to one person may not be funny or scary to another; but, there is a trick to writing good horror or humor.
The trick is to write what you think is funny or scary yourself, and write it with conviction. I can't speak to humor so much, but I do write a fair bit of horror, and I know from experience. Concepts or situations that you find frightening, but may not be frightening to others, when written with conviction can seem frightening to others. You're suspending the disbelief of your reader by imposing your impressions of the concept or situation upon them, showing the reader these things in a way that they may not have thought of before.
The subjectivity of these particular genres can work for or against a writer; the good writer will make them work for them by writing with conviction.
Today's word count on short story "Singing Them Down": 1,542
Posted by wvwritergirl
at 2:12 AM EDT
