If you wanted to write some horror just in time for Halloween but weren’t sure how to go about it, author Dawn Kurtagich has a couple pointers.
It’s almost Halloween, and no time of year is better than now to get your creative juices flowing — especially if you’re looking to write something supernatural and spooky. Urban legends abound, and they’re great for inspiring an original story of your own.
But when you sit down to pump out all those words, what happens when that inspiration just goes poof?
The Dead House and And the Trees Crept In author Dawn Kurtagich has some ideas. She’s done some pretty interesting things to put herself in the mood to write horror, and now she’s sharing all of those tips with you.
Writes the author:
Come little children, I’ll take you away, into a land of horrification….
Come along with me as I teach you guys how to get into the mindset of a horror author just in time for Halloween! If you want to know how to think like a horror writer, act like a horror writer, and dress like a horror writer, you’ve come to the right place. Here is your toolkit to survive Halloween, and to get that spooky inspiration you desire. Enjoy…
I loved And the Trees Crept In (the U.K. cover is featured, in part, above) and “>had a chance to sit down with Dawn at NYCC 2016 to chat about the horror genre in general. You can read that interview here.
About the author
Dawn Kurtagich is a writer of creepy, spooky and psychologically sinister YA fiction, where girls may descend into madness, boys may see monsters in men, and grown-ups may have something to hide. By the time she was eighteen, she had been to fifteen schools across two continents. The daughter of a British globe-trotter and single mother, she grew up all over the place, but her formative years were spent in Africa—on a mission, in the bush, in the city and in the desert.
Her life reads like a YA novel.
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