KC Redding-Gonzalez offers another compelling article. She is an excellent writer who challenges our assumptions about the world and horror writing.
Horror changes when you stop just being a reader of Horror and instead choose to write it.
Not only do questions arise about who you choose for characters and how they are depicted, but questions take shape around the relevance of plots and the potential for constructing a Literary message that might emerge from your once-invigorating first draft. We often aren’t yet thinking too seriously about the Bigger Picture – the one that suggests we might be writing Horror in a bubble. We don’t notice we are picturing an editor who looks like us, and instead we occupy ourselves with the worries of most novice writers – worries about craft and relevance, about choosing just the “right” marketing venue. We are just writers writing. Or so we think.
We never really worry that we might be judged by too many assumptions, although if you are a woman in Horror…
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Excellent writing about a very scary subject that is exciting to read. As much as we are scared of horror…we love to read it, see it, and study it. when KC writes about horror…it is the best and we learn the most about horror. Thank you KC.
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Karen, I agree completely.
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A really fascinating article. She writes so wonderfully well and clearly about a variety of horror tropes. This was a lot to process but she is absolutely right that we have to open our eyes and look beyond the traditional white-male-oriented tropes in horror and indeed in literature across-the-board.
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I continue to hope that KC writes a book on horror!
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Thank you for continuing to further my Horror agenda!
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KC, you are very welcome!
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