Let’s talk: Not drama, not fiction writing, not even suspense for the moment, but the idea of horror in fiction.
The tingle that couldn’t, wouldn’t dare happen to your audience; they are allowed to live through your characters, using the carefully forged words of the wordsmith.
Benignly reviewing other authors’ attributes and hidden schemes seems to be a popular pastime with most books and classrooms and a foray of websites. There seems to be some safety harness attached to a lack of unique thought like the gopher popping its head above ground.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
Where the real trouble begins is when you initiate something yourself and express an original opinion, now that’ll get the whole community in a self-righteous uproar.
That’s when the gopher has to run in terror for its life!
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