write-it-motherfuckers:

kestraechowolf:

incandescent-creativity:

whatsanwritepocalae:

writingisfancylying:

How do you write creepy stories

• Over describe things
• Under describe things
• Fingers, teeth, and eyes
• Short sentences in rapid succession build tension
• Single sentence paragraphs build dread
• Uncanny valley=things that aren’t normal almost getting it right
• Third person limited view
• Limited explanations
• Rot, mold, damage, age, static, flickering, especially in places it shouldn’t be
• Limited sights for your mc -blindness, darkness, fog, refuse
• Real consequences
• Being alone -the more people there are, the less scary it is
• Intimate knowledge, but only on one side

I don’t know I just write scary things but I don’t know what I’m doing.

Rule of Thumb: your reader’s imagination will scare them more than anything you could ever write. You don’t have to offer a perfectly concrete explanation for everything at the end. In fact, doing so may detract from your story.

@write-it-motherfuckers is an expert

Thank you Darling~ 🖤 I think I’ve actually answered something like this in the past. Along a similar line at least.