Brain Babies: HAVE YOU EVER… Horror Writer Edition
HAVE YOU EVER… Horror Writer Edition
- Killed a character just for kicks?
- Cringed at something you wrote?
- Wanted to puke at something you wrote?
- Watched as your character just starting doing unspeakably horrible things to someone else and just kept typing/scribbling like, “I’m not responsible for this!”
- Decorated your house with horror paraphernalia, even if it’s nowhere near Halloween?
- Imagined someone you don’t like getting eviscerated?
- Written someone you don’t like getting eviscerated?
- Killed a friend in a story?
- Told your friend you were doing it?
- Named a character after another horror writer?
- Killed that person in the most heinous way possible?
- Written something you absolutely know is too nasty to sell?
- Sold it anyway?
- Written something so nasty you’re afraid to submit it for fear of what people will think?
- Submitted it anyway?
- Gleefully described something hideous you did to a character in conversation?
- Apologized for it?
- Actually scared yourself, at least a little?
- Had someone tell you that you should be ashamed of yourself?
- Grinned at them when they did?
- Defended the genre?
- Been in a morgue?
- Been in a coffin?
- Been inside a mausoleum?
- Seen a human corpse?
If you answered “yes” to 1-5 of these, you’re probably a nice, normal person who happens to write some disturbing things.
If you answered “yes” to up to 10 of these, you are probably taking this whole “horror” persona a little too seriously. It might be time for a vacation. Take a long drive. Spend some time in a remote location with a dangerously bipolar nurse.
If you answered “yes” to up to 15, you may have a real problem. There might actually be malevolent imps controlling your brain. There’s a small possibility you are destined for real-world evil.
If you answered almost or all of them “yes” you are a terrifying nutjob and people should run screaming from you on sight. The world should tremble at your very existence. You are doom personified.