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Old 01-24-2010, 11:28 AM
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What are you trying to say? What is your story about? If you don't know what message you're trying to convey and what themes you're dealing with, then of course you'll have trouble. Right now, what you have is "ummm....scary stuff happens". For you to know what scary stuff, dig deeper, what interests you? What do you want to talk to people about? How do you want to scare them? Do you want to creep them out with sexual and existential dread, do you want to make them feel how disconnected people can be or do you want them to vomit with terror as a five year old girl with icy blue skin and buttons for eyes bites into a human heart like an apple? THINK! Also, for once Barbara Bush was right: Reading Is Fundamental.
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