I need help on writting a horror book and getting it published .
Any ideas ? or clues ? or sujestions?
2006-11-23 07:20:18 · 7 answers · asked by lorenzo p 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Avoid cliche
Go back to the classics of horror writing to see how the masters do it - and do a lot of reading before you embark on your novel.
Look at:
Edgar Alan Poe
M R James
Guy de Maupassant
H P Lovecraft
J Herbert
Saki (wrote great horror as well as other genres)
Also try the Pan Books of Horror - they were an annual anthology of short horror stories that you can find in any second hand book store and features ome superb stories. Ditto the Dark Voices series
For a more modern take look at Stephen King (some people don't know that King writes brilliant non-horror too). Also read Roahd Dahl - some of his best work is horror
As for the publishing side....one step at a time, grasshopper
2006-11-23 07:43:57 · answer #1 · answered by LadyRebecca 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the best way is to get a literary agent. If you cant aford one, send a copy to a publisher. I recommend choosing the same publisher as your favorite horror book. You can find the publisher by looking in the front of book. Also, you should send the draft to yourself. Do not open it. This is so that no one will be able to steel your story and you have proof that it is your. good luck
2006-11-23 07:37:25 · answer #2 · answered by Katharine A 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The way you worded this question bugs me. There's no A to B guide for writing books and especially getting them published. Horrors not exactly my favorate, but I'd say suspense is key. And of course, you have to have a natural need to write, without that, theres no passion, and without passion, no book.
2006-11-23 13:12:32 · answer #3 · answered by amor fati 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well you can begin to whrite about the thing that frightens you the most. Or what you were afraid of when u were a kid. Perhaps you can make it like it can truely happen.
2006-11-23 07:32:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If that was common knowlage we all would be writting books
2006-11-23 07:29:51 · answer #5 · answered by aussie 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
one- don't follow the standerd. two- get lost in the thought. three- if its unexpected its good. four- details, details, DETAILS!!!!! five- fact is stranger then fiction. do some research. six- let your mind go wild
2006-11-23 07:30:14 · answer #6 · answered by g g 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
im no writer but you need alot of details and descreptive words
2006-11-23 07:46:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋