My psychiatrist is wiling to vouch for the fact I’m not a psychopathic, sociopathic or serial killer! She said I have a vivid imagination and not to worry 😂 But, given in almost every short story I’ve written, someone gets killed, and I’m starting to become known for that in class! But I figured I should ask just in case.
I’ll give you a break with a not-so-violent story today. Wait until I read one of my supernatural/demonic pieces in the podcast. I have a twisted mind - just wait until I read “House of Evil,” “The Island,” and “The Candle in the Cabin.” But they’re very long so either I read them all the way through or I break them up into two readings in one week. Both have their pros and cons. What do you think?
I am not worried about you, Robin. I love to read the macabre now and then (thank you, Shirley Jackson for the introduction), but I don't write it...yet. I do touch on violence, the taking of life of animals while trapping, in some of the poems in my book, The Dream That Is Childhood.
Whether to break a long story in two segments, I think I lean toward keeping it to one reading. However, if it is indeed long and you break it at the point, where the reader is dying to know what could possibly happen next, then you will have your reader hooked, and they will come back to finish reading the second segment.
This is certainly cold-blooded. His own babies too. Pretty gruesome, Robin.
My psychiatrist is wiling to vouch for the fact I’m not a psychopathic, sociopathic or serial killer! She said I have a vivid imagination and not to worry 😂 But, given in almost every short story I’ve written, someone gets killed, and I’m starting to become known for that in class! But I figured I should ask just in case.
I’ll give you a break with a not-so-violent story today. Wait until I read one of my supernatural/demonic pieces in the podcast. I have a twisted mind - just wait until I read “House of Evil,” “The Island,” and “The Candle in the Cabin.” But they’re very long so either I read them all the way through or I break them up into two readings in one week. Both have their pros and cons. What do you think?
I am not worried about you, Robin. I love to read the macabre now and then (thank you, Shirley Jackson for the introduction), but I don't write it...yet. I do touch on violence, the taking of life of animals while trapping, in some of the poems in my book, The Dream That Is Childhood.
Whether to break a long story in two segments, I think I lean toward keeping it to one reading. However, if it is indeed long and you break it at the point, where the reader is dying to know what could possibly happen next, then you will have your reader hooked, and they will come back to finish reading the second segment.