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    612-822-4611

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Writing Scary Scenes: Professional Techniques for Thrillers, Horror and Other Exciting Fiction

Writing Scary Scenes: Professional Techniques for Thrillers, Horror and Other Exciting Fiction

Hall, Rayne

Paperback

Series: Writer's Craft, Book 2

Writing Instruction

ISBN10: 1519356099
ISBN13: 9781519356093
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 19 2015
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Are your frightening scenes scary enough? Learn practical tricks to turn up the suspense. Make your readers' hearts hammer with suspense, their breaths quicken with excitement, and their skins tingle with goosebumps of delicious fright. This book contains practical suggestions how to structure a scary scene, increase the suspense, make the climax more terrifying, make the reader feel the character's fear. It includes techniques for manipulating the readers' subconscious and creating powerful emotional effects. Use this book to write a new scene, or to add tension and excitement to a draft. You will learn tricks of the trade for black moment and climax scenes, describing monsters and villains, writing harrowing captivity sections and breathtaking escapes, as well as how to make sure that your hero doesn't come across as a wimp... and much more. This book is recommended for writers of all genres, especially thriller, horror, paranormal romance and urban fantasy. British English.

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