Hello dear writers,
I have a couple of questions for anyone who would take time to read and answer. My sincerest "thank you" in advance.
In the past several months I haven't been writing much. I was mostly re-reading previous works of incomplete fiction and touching up a few poems.
Suddenly, a few days ago, I got a bit of inspiration in the wee hours. It resulted in 11 single-spaced hand-written pages of what I'll call "Part II" of a previously-written story.
I wrote Part I about a year ago, as a contest entry. I didn't win but I did get a very encouraging note from the editor. He said my story was "good and well-written".
Part I is an angst-filled piece that introduces my MC, a woman in an ugly but financially rewarding co-dependent relationship. She spends the greater part of her day agonizing over whether or not she should read an e-mail from the other co-dependent. When the MC finally gets the nerve to read the e-mail, it's surprisingly nice. Part I ends there.
When I picked up Part I the other morning, I saw that I'd re-written the ending sometime after my wonderfully-worded rejection. I had changed the e-mail from a nice one to a nasty one then added a few sentences about the MC's fury over it.
I think I showed how the MC's mental state was already questionable, both in the mental and physical actions she performs while getting up the nerve to read the e-mail (Part I) as well as in her actions immediately after she reads the e-mail (Part II).
To me, a progression from neurosis (Part I) to fury to murder (Part II) is logical. What say you?
But is the murder enough to make this a horror story?
There are elements in the back story (for example, another family member who was a murderer as well) that lend a bit more to the murder plot, but this is the first horror piece (bad writing attempts aside) to flow from my pen, and an unexpected one at that as the story was in no way intended to be about a murderess.
I wrote in what I thought was a bit of dark humor as well, just because I like a good laugh.
Also, has anyone else here started out with a story of a different genre and some how ended up with horror?
I have a couple of questions for anyone who would take time to read and answer. My sincerest "thank you" in advance.
In the past several months I haven't been writing much. I was mostly re-reading previous works of incomplete fiction and touching up a few poems.
Suddenly, a few days ago, I got a bit of inspiration in the wee hours. It resulted in 11 single-spaced hand-written pages of what I'll call "Part II" of a previously-written story.
I wrote Part I about a year ago, as a contest entry. I didn't win but I did get a very encouraging note from the editor. He said my story was "good and well-written".
Part I is an angst-filled piece that introduces my MC, a woman in an ugly but financially rewarding co-dependent relationship. She spends the greater part of her day agonizing over whether or not she should read an e-mail from the other co-dependent. When the MC finally gets the nerve to read the e-mail, it's surprisingly nice. Part I ends there.
When I picked up Part I the other morning, I saw that I'd re-written the ending sometime after my wonderfully-worded rejection. I had changed the e-mail from a nice one to a nasty one then added a few sentences about the MC's fury over it.
I think I showed how the MC's mental state was already questionable, both in the mental and physical actions she performs while getting up the nerve to read the e-mail (Part I) as well as in her actions immediately after she reads the e-mail (Part II).
To me, a progression from neurosis (Part I) to fury to murder (Part II) is logical. What say you?
But is the murder enough to make this a horror story?
There are elements in the back story (for example, another family member who was a murderer as well) that lend a bit more to the murder plot, but this is the first horror piece (bad writing attempts aside) to flow from my pen, and an unexpected one at that as the story was in no way intended to be about a murderess.
I wrote in what I thought was a bit of dark humor as well, just because I like a good laugh.
Also, has anyone else here started out with a story of a different genre and some how ended up with horror?
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