Thriller Author 📚 | Cartoonist 🎨 | Kauai 🌴 Writing your next sleepless night. Surviving the madness with a grumpy cat and a vain gecko demanding top billing.
Kauai
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Want more suspense in your writing? Make the unthinkable routine.
From The Hunger Games to the author who did it the best, Shirley Jackson.
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Article is up! Hauʻoli Lā Heleuī! 🎃
“Happy Halloween” in Hawaiian. xitter.gq/uthorcdswanson/status/…
Invited Edgar Allan Poe over for a few writing tips. Should have specified “verbal.”
Pau approves of the cuts. Check in tomorrow for the article.
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AND...here's the link to the article:
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Wednesday’s master of terror is Shirley Jackson, who knew that a beautiful morning, a friendly neighborhood, and a handful of stones could add up to something terrifying.
Read on to see how you can use ordinary people and everyday situations to keep readers pinned to your story.
Meanwhile, Professor Mo'o would like us all to leave the tea party.
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Kaua'i...a recent night sky. Apparently, the ocean view wasn't enough. #NightSky #NightOwlWriters
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Invited Edgar Allan Poe over for a few writing tips. Should have specified “verbal.”
Pau approves of the cuts. Check in tomorrow for the article.
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Tickets for the next Hunger Games went on sale today. And yeah, I have a cartoon. (And an article, check my feed.) Couldn't resist.
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Tickets for the next Hunger Games movie go on sale today.
Kauaʻi is sending me, Professor Mo'o, and Pau.
The professor has a stick. I have concerns. Pau has seized the supplies and established the exact regime we came to overthrow.
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It's time. Tickets to see The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping are now on sale. Only in theaters & IMAX November 20.
Everyone’s scrambling for Sunrise on the Reaping tickets, and I’m over here hoping someone recognizes Suzanne Collins in my cartoon. Apparently, I’ve chosen my own arena.
Writers: here’s who taught The Hunger Games author her best trick. Besides making readers deeply afraid to get attached to anyone.
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Want more suspense in your writing? Make the unthinkable routine.
From The Hunger Games to the author who did it the best, Shirley Jackson.
#WritingTips #WritingCommunity #WritersofX
Five masters of terror. Five lessons for writers. Several reasons Pau would prefer we took up gardening.
The series begins in twenty minutes with Stephen King—and why making readers recoil isn’t the same as making them afraid. 🎃
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Stephen King knows you’ll turn the page. Let’s examine what he’s holding over you.
First up in my Five Masters of Terror series: fear, pacing, and when to put the entrails away.
Article is up. Pau has requested we skip the practical exercises.
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While I'm writing a short article series on five masters of horror, I have to give a shout-out to a contemporary mistress of dark psychological thrillers, Nicky Shearsby
Her novels take a "whydunnit" route into this territory: understanding the person you’d rather keep a safe distance from. That suggests a useful question for writers struggling with maintaining suspense: once readers know who your dark soul is, can you keep them reading to discover how that person justifies being one? A locked door is troubling. Someone on the other side who thinks they’re being perfectly reasonable is much more interesting.
I’m locking myself in the writing shack to unpack masterclasses from the greatest minds in horror.
Starting this week, I'm breaking down exclusive tips and mechanics from Stephen King and 4 other horror icons to show you exactly how to write stories that terrify readers.
Drop your favorite horror author in the replies—let's see if they made the portrait wall. 👇
Don't miss my new series!
Five Masters of Terror and Their Deeply Useful Ways to Disturb People
Here's the line-up
Tuesday: Stephen King: Make the ordinary unsafe.
Wednesday: Shirley Jackson: Let perfectly polite people become deeply unsettling.
Thursday: Edgar Allan Poe: Trap us inside a mind we shouldn’t trust.
Friday: Daphne du Maurier: Make a place feel as though it knows something.
Saturday: Alfred Hitchcock: Let the audience see the danger coming.
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To kick things off with Stephen King: What is his absolute most terrifying book, and what is the #1 writing lesson you took away from it?
For me, it’s the pacing of Misery. Let me know yours below!
Don't miss my new series!
Five Masters of Terror and Their Deeply Useful Ways to Disturb People
Here's the line-up
Tuesday: Stephen King: Make the ordinary unsafe.
Wednesday: Shirley Jackson: Let perfectly polite people become deeply unsettling.
Thursday: Edgar Allan Poe: Trap us inside a mind we shouldn’t trust.
Friday: Daphne du Maurier: Make a place feel as though it knows something.
Saturday: Alfred Hitchcock: Let the audience see the danger coming.
ALT #WritingCommunity #Halloween #Writingtips
Writing is often what pulls me out of a mental slump. It’s the rest of the writing life that wears me down: querying, criticism, travel, too much screen time, and isolation. The writing itself brings me joy. Apparently, imaginary people are good for me. It’s the real ones who complicate things.