By “THE NEW FACE OF HORROR”
Deon C. Sanders, Author of MISS MARY WEATHER: A SOUTHERN NIGHTMARE
Visualization is the key to becoming a great horror writer. It’s like a spiritual meditation ritual that allows writers to reach enlightenment. Once a writer has reached enlightenment through visualization the outcome can produce a horror novel that will catapult
a perceptible reader to their ultimate goal. “TO BE
SCARED UNCONTROLLABLY.” Which is to see, feel, smell,
and hear what true horror writers are writing. To
hear a clock on the wall tick is very difficult to
write in words or from a distance in real life, but I
make readers hear the essence of the clock in their
minds, then the sound becomes much clearer to them.
English courses are a strong factor in becoming a
pure and sound horror writer. However, in my opinion
it is not the strongest. The strongest factor is
listening to everything and everyone around you.
To seek knowledge of words and their definitions.
To seek the unreal when others border on the reality.
Letting the words flow from your heart and not your
mind. Forgetting about periods and commas until
the final draft.
Reading your words out loud, but in the silence of
the mind, and in the quietness of your heartbeat.
A true composer of words, harness ever aspect of
English or non-English words,—creating their own
interpretation for others to decide with their own
minds and egos where reality ends and the fiction
begins.
Now, another aspect of writing is “CREATIVITY.”
Which can be used to bring the idea or plot of your
book to life. Or it can affect your book in a way
that can defuse the excitement of it. In a book with
the right creativity the horror writer can built a
world beyond thought, a world beyond illusion, and a
world of words that carry emotion and aftermath,
sorrow and love, action and stability, and ultimately
fear. Which creates an ocean of artistic fiction in
the midst of the waves of horror literature.
To my writers, I leave you with this:
Now, sit back one night under a lamp with pen and
paper. Then start to visualize everything that
happened that day. Void out all the sounds in the
house.
Remember the conversations, the clothes you and
others were wearing.
Remember the sounds, the half smiles, the full smiles
of people.
The voice tones of those people you were talking to
and the ones you heard in the distance.
When you get to the visualization realm (The Unreal),
you will see a door. This door is the door to writing
horror or anything else you choose.
Open it and begin to write. As your minds eye opens
up, you will be able to write a paragraph in your mind
before it even hits the paper. This is how I became
the “NEW FACE OF HORROR.”
Let us not fall short of our literary gifts and use
these tools of vision and hunger, to unleash the
layers of paper to the ink of your mind.
Writers—your book is all around you. All you need to
do is open your mind. You can write about economics,
society, misfortunes, love, friendship, nightmares,
ghosts, horror, brutality, happiness, dysfunctional
families, the government, racism, police, drug abuse,
gang bangers, peer pressure, fiction or non-fiction,
fairy tale or superstition. Just
write..................
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