I wonder. I was watching this documentary on a serial killer who, as a 15 year old, killed his grandparents because he “wanted to see what it was like to kill grandma” and then didn’t want his grandfather to be alone and murdered him. He was tried as a child and had his record expunged.
But a young black girl can be tried as an adult for killing her rapist.
I wonder what I would find if I looked up statistics of being tried as an adult and race. Given how often poc children are treated with inherently less empathy and seen as adults.
Zero plot twist.
I took a class on race, gender, and the criminal justice system and I can confirm
no offense rami but billy porter is channeling the most freddie energy tonight by FAR
would having six wings, thousands of eyes all over my body and a halo so bright it burns out the retinas of anyone who looks at it directly help me to make friends? no. would it enhance my job prospects? probably not. would it improve my quality of life significantly? that’s debatable. but it would make me very happy.
I’m just a dumb bitch… standing in front of a romcom… asking it to fill the void in my life with somewhat unattainable representations of romantic love
How do you write creepy stories
- Over describe things
- Under describe things
- Fingers, teeth, and eyes
- Short sentences in rapid succession build tension
- Single sentence paragraphs build dread
- Uncanny valley=things that aren’t normal almost getting it right
- Third person limited view
- Limited explanations
- Rot, mold, damage, age, static, flickering, especially in places it shouldn’t be
- Limited sights for your mc -blindness, darkness, fog, refuse
- Real consequences
- Being alone -the more people there are, the less scary it is
- Intimate knowledge, but only on one side
I don’t know I just write scary things but I don’t know what I’m doing.
Rule of Thumb: your reader’s imagination will scare them more than anything you could ever write. You don’t have to offer a perfectly concrete explanation for everything at the end. In fact, doing so may detract from your story.
