Tag: Scream Writing

One topic that doesn’t come up often in discussions on writing horror is the importance of the victims themselves. There is plenty of writing...

If you take any Writing 101 course then you will be familiar with the importance of character arcs to fiction. Prose fiction has always...

Welcome back, Scream Scholars. As a part of our continuing education in horror, it only makes sense to reach out to academics who have...

Sometimes we can discover fantastic resources for writing while just kicking back and relaxing. That's what happened to me when I can up with...

This Scream Writing Questions post should have been up two years ago but somehow it managed to slip through the cracks of email, a...

When we begin writing a story, we’re in love with an idea. The idea may be bold, maybe it’s weird, could be it’s a...

Most writing advice would suggest you follow a certain formula, as if the best stories are something you create in the lab. And look,...

Fanfiction gets a bad wrap. And I get it. It’s full of weird sex, poor spelling, and a fervent love for a fictional universe...

A bullet might be the fastest way to develop character (or end it). Similarly, dropping a bomb on a city is the most surefire...

In his book On Writing, Stephen King discusses his method for discovering the story as he writes it and why he is not a...

You can learn a lot writing a book. Learn something about yourself, your understanding of genre, and maybe hopefully how to be a better...

I’m almost done writing Scream Writing: A Comprehensive Guide to Writing the Horror Screenplay and that means I’m beginning to gear up research on...

I grew up on the tale end of the arcade boom, only encountering them in my travels a few times as a youth (aboard...

I spoke before about how writing fiction can be a lonely task – how sometimes it is necessarily lonely in order to protect the...

Writing is a private ordeal. We sit at the computer and will a world into existence with words. It’s a Herculean task. The loneliness...

Pat Higgins reached out to me on Twitter while we were looking for new people to talk to. Can't say how glad I am...

Gathering around the campfire and telling ghost stories is such a powerful image of how we share our mythologies that John Carpenter used it...

“We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're going to live on the internet!” – The Social Network (2010)   Something I...

This week’s Scream Writing is going to be a little bit different. If you follow me on Twitter, then you know that I’m a...

When it comes to horror, it's surprising just how well it meshes with comedy. Perhaps no one knows that better than Chance Shirley, writer/director...

This week Scriptophobic is joined by Andrew Bellware to answer some Scream Writing Questions, explore the art of screenwriting, and dig into the love of...

We're talked to a lot of great people on Scream Writing Questions but this is the first time that I've been so excited to talk...

In years past, apocalyptic scenarios were most commonly seen in cult classics and midnight drive-in movies. These pieces of art could be incredibly influential,...

Let's kick off this week's Scream Writing Questions with an episode of Larissa Thomas and Alicia Faucher's delightful web series Allie & Lara Make a Horror...

Blank isn’t Horror A recent tweet by Patrick Bromley was infused with palpable sass directed at a review that claim “Hereditary isn’t a horror...