Writing Scary: Creating Fear and an Atmosphere of Dread

Room 6

Sunday March 20, 2016 - 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm


Our authors and editors get into some hands-on techniques for using wordplay to build suspense, evoke fear, and thrill your readers with a satisfyingly good scare. We?ll look at how people read and how to use that to the best effect. Various approaches to: Staging the reveal, or: What to show when, and the differences between horror, thriller, and slasher.


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